6 Intersectional Inequalities
Channel: Push*Back*Lash
Date: 2023-10-27

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 6 Topics and timestamps
00:12   Global Inequalities, Eastern and Western Inequalities
06:00   Gender Inequalities and Intersectional Feminism
09:45   1. Black Feminism
20:07   2. Postcolonial Feminism
25:38   3. Feminist Disability Studies
41:22   4. Roma 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.