5 Feminist Analysis of Democracy: Contemporary Feminist Analysis
Channel: Push*Back*Lash
Date: 27/10/2023

This Push*Back*Lash report uses genealogy and normative theory to reconstruct and analyze feminist critiques of liberal democracy, contemporary feminist approaches to democracy, gender inequality, and gender justice. A .pdf version of the report can be accessed by clicking: https://pushbacklash.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/PushBackLash_D1.1-1.pdf 

Part 5 Topics and timestamps
00:12   Contemporary Feminist Analysis of Democratic Theory
01:16   1. Ecofeminism
14:05   2. Social Reproduction Theory and Care Ethics
20:34   3. Queer and Trans Feminism

The report is structured as follows: (I) The first part gives an overview of current antifeminist and anti-gender movements, backlash theory, and democratic backsliding to briefly map the current challenges and problems facing scholarly, activist, and policy efforts towards gender equality in Europe. (II) The second part delves into feminist approaches to democracy against the background of a genealogical and normative analysis of democracy within the framework of liberal European democracy. This part reconstructs key feminist arguments and criticisms of liberal democracy and offers alternative tools to transform it from within.