Global perspectives on anti feminism : far right and religious attacks on equality and diversity 10 chapters from five continents (Asia Australia Europe Latin America Africa) provide a global perspective on current anti feminism and anti gender discoursesProvides an analytical understanding of anti feminism as an intersectional ideology between continuity and change with a conceptual framework of analysis and a comparative perspective on common global trends as well as regional national specifitiesShows how discourses originally developed in the Global North West are re articulated in different national (including post colonial) contexts promoting an understanding of the entanglements between global and the localPresents new perspectives and information on different world regions opening up new angles in research on transnational anti feminist networks and the global spread of anti gender discoursesProvides a solid basis for further research in local national and regional contextsThis new book brings together research and analyses from five continents in order to promote a global perspective on the thoroughly global phenomenon of the current culture wars around sex and gender. The contributions show how transnational networks spread discourses that were developed in the Global North and how they become re articulated in different national political and religious contexts.In recent years issues of gender and sexuality have become a political battlefield on which far right religious and conservative actors wage their war against liberal and left wing ideas as well as emancipatory movements. Anti Gender crusades which had originally been launched by the Vatican deeply impacted societies and politics especially as these discourses were adopted by the secular far right. Campaigns against sexual and reproductive rights against gender equality and sexual diversity were waged from Russia to the United States and from Latin America to Japan