What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+ activisms across Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries, this Open Access book explores transnational struggles on various levels, from the micro-scale of the everyday to large-scale, spectacular events. Drawing on ethnographic insights and encounters from various sites, this book conceptualizes resistance as situated in the grey zone between barely perceptible, even hidden or covert, forms of mundane activist practices and highly visible street protests, gathering large crowds. Taking the reader beyond the dichotomies of visible/invisible and public/private, this book advances new understandings of resistance, solidarity, and activism in transnationalizing feminist and queer struggles, illustrated by rich ethnographic case studies from Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey.

Comics, Activism, Feminisms explores from both historical and contemporary perspectives how comic art, activism, and feminisms are intertwined, and how comic art itself can be a form of activism. Feminist comic art emerged with the second-wave feminist movements. Today, there are comics connected to social activist movements working for change in a variety of areas. Comics artists often respond quickly to political events, making comics on topical issues that take a critical or satirical stance and highlighting the need for change. Comic art can point to problems, present alternatives, and give hope. Comics artists from all parts of the world engage issues pertaining to feminisms and LGBTQIA+ issues, war and political conflict, climate crisis, the global migrant and refugee situation, and other societal problems. The chapters of this anthology illuminate the aesthetic and thematic aspects of comics, activism, and feminisms globally. Particular attention is given to the work of comics collectives, where Do-it-Ourselves is a strategy among activism-oriented artists, which use a great variety of media, such as fanzines, albums, webcomics, and exhibitions to communicate and disseminate activist comic art. Comics, Activism, Feminisms is an essential anthology for scholars and students of comics studies, literary studies, art history, media studies, and gender studies.

Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclusions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in which people who find themselves in minoritized positions struggle against multiple injustices. Through a series of case studies documenting counter-struggles against racist, colonialist, sexist forms of discrimination and exclusion, Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe asks how the paradigm and politics of the welfare state operate to discriminate against the most marginalized, by instating a naturalized hierarchy of human-ness. As such it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race, gender, colonialism and postcolonialism, citizenship and belonging. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This book consists of lectures on gender-discriminatory criminal laws. As is discussed in the book, the socially constructed roles that a given society considers appropriate for women and men hinder women from enjoying their fundamental human rights. In this sense, several forms of violence against women are being used to keep them within the given structure, and criminal justice is not provided as expected. Therefore, states must implement a comprehensive criminal policy to eliminate discriminatory laws that tolerate such harmful practices. Prof. Dr. Felix Herzog has been Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Bremen since 2005. He is a trusted lecturer of the German National Academic Foundation and the author of numerous legal publications. His research focuses on money laundering crime and right-wing radicalism.Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Karaka? is an Associate Professor of Criminal Law and has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at the University of Bremen since 2017. Her research focuses on criminal law and criminology, including international criminal law. Dieses Buch besteht aus Vorträgen über geschlechterdiskriminierende Strafgesetze. Wie in dem Buch erörtert wird, hindern die sozial konstruierten Rollen, die eine bestimmte Gesellschaft für Frauen und Männer als angemessen betrachtet, Frauen daran, ihre grundlegenden Menschenrechte wahrzunehmen. In diesem Sinne werden verschiedene Formen von Gewalt angewandt, um Frauen in der gegebenen Struktur zu halten, und das Strafrecht wird nicht wie erwartet umgesetzt. Daher müssen Staaten eine umfassende Strafrechtspolitik betreiben, um diskriminierende Gesetze zu beseitigen, die solche schädlichen Praktiken tolerieren. Prof. Dr. Felix Herzog ist seit 2005 Professor für Strafrecht einschließlich Grundlagen und Nebengebiete, Strafverfahrensrecht und Rechtsphilosophie an der Universität Bremen. Er ist Vertrauensdozent der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes und Autor zahlreicher rechtswissenschaftlicher Publikationen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Geldwäschekriminalität und Rechtsradikalismus.Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Karaka? ist seit 2017 Gastwissenschaftlerin und Dozentin an der Universität Bremen am Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Strafrecht, Kriminologie und Völkerstrafrecht.

This open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based on rich qualitative data offering in-depth analyses from different geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book explores how reproductive justice is understood, contested and given meaning. Chapters further develop the Black feminist concept of reproductive justice in a critical dialogue with postcolonial theory and explore the strength of transnational feminist practices. This book thus offers a fresh approach to the issue of abortion by engaging with contemporary political and cultural processes, and it expands the narrow notions of women’s rights, particularly notions of property rights over bodies, towards an analysis of the political economy of social reproduction and how it affects bodies that can be pregnant. This volume will be of interest to scholars with interests in reproductive justice, anti-gender politics, and religious fundamentalism.

This book explores how race, sexuality and gender are employed in political projects of belonging, whilst examining the implications for individual identity formation, in the context of Sweden.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to understand the complex nexus at which gender and the borderlands intersect, modelling radical relationality at epistemological, ontological, and activist levels. Going beyond border studies’ frequent site at the U.S.–Mexico Border, this book examines the power relations of borderlands as they play out in, influence, and reflect gender dynamics. Contributors draw on case studies from around the world, and their chapters span diverse fields from anthropology, literature, and history, to political science, religious studies, sociology, and the arts. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies, gender studies, and the wide range of interlocking disciplines that inform and enrich these fields. Chapters 1, 15 and 20.of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY) 4.0 license.