This book addresses whether the "gendering" of constitutions promotes women’s equality.

In contrast to the wealth of studies on progress towards gender equality, opposition to gender equality is rarely studied, which makes it difficult to understand the positive and negative dynamics of gender equality as a political project.

Opposition to gender equality comes in many forms. It can be direct and extremely visible, like when Swedish feminists receive online death threats or like in France, where in 2014 thousands demonstrated against 'gender theory' and school programs tackling sex and gender stereotypes. It can be ongoing, as in opposition to legal abortion....

This book addresses whether the "gendering" of constitutions promotes women’s equality.

In contrast to the wealth of studies on progress towards gender equality, opposition to gender equality is rarely studied, which makes it difficult to understand the positive and negative dynamics of gender equality as a political project.

Opposition to gender equality comes in many forms. It can be direct and extremely visible, like when Swedish feminists receive online death threats or like in France, where in 2014 thousands demonstrated against 'gender theory' and school programs tackling sex and gender stereotypes. It can be ongoing, as in opposition to legal abortion....

This book describes, compares, explains, and contextualises the positionings, i.e. discourses and activities, which feminists in Belgrade, Serbia and Zagreb, Croatia produced in relation to the (post-)Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Two types of positionings are analysed: those which the feminists have produced on the (sexual) war violence and those which they have produced on each other.

Applying a Bourdieuian framework and using interviews with key feminist and peace activists in the region alongside a thorough examination of organisational documents and printed media articles, Ana...