‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments

Democracy and gender equality are increasingly contested in European parliamentary contexts, with the rise of political parties and movements that oppose feminist politics and the rights of women, LGBTI* and racialised people. Existing literature exploring far‐right and anti‐gender actors in institu...

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Autores: Lombardo, Emanuela, Caravantes, Paloma, Díaz Fernández, Silvia
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/415360
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/415360
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Democracy
Parliament
Anti-gender
Feminist politics
Spain
http://metadata.un.org/sdg/5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Gender equality
Politics
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Resumo:Democracy and gender equality are increasingly contested in European parliamentary contexts, with the rise of political parties and movements that oppose feminist politics and the rights of women, LGBTI* and racialised people. Existing literature exploring far‐right and anti‐gender actors in institutional settings has focused on their discourse and impact on parliamentary politics and governments. Yet, limited attention has been paid to the feminist responses articulated in parliamentary contexts that face active opposition to gender and LGBTI* equality. This article addresses this gap by analysing feminist parliamentary responses to such opposition, and the factors that enable and constrain these responses, by undertaking a multi‐level comparison between the Catalan Parliament (2021–2024) and the Spanish Parliament (2019–2023), based on content analysis of 21 parliamentary debates and 42 in‐depth interviews.