From “backlash” to “productive” responses.
Journal: Culture Practice & Europeanization
Year: 2025

The book Anti-Gender Mobilisations in Europe and the Feminist Response: Productive Resistance (Smrdelj &amp; Kuhar, 2025a) asks how feminists adapt their strategies over time in response to a new, hostile environment of anti-feminism. This review essay critically acclaims the volume against the state-of-the-art research. It emphasises that the book advances research by focusing on the analysis of reactions; critically rethinking the concept of “backlash” for analysis; and offering a clear defini