A Graff
Biographic Data
| ID | 37500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Graff |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Graff |
| SIGNATURE | GRAFF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0468-0376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 340 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender danger. Mapping a decade of research on anti-gender politics
As observed by Kuhar and Paternotte (2017) in their pivotal book Anti-gender Campaigns in Europe, initially campaigns and movements against ‘gender’ were interpreted as national phenomena but over
The West Is Trying Too Hard
This paper examines how the term 'gender' has been re-signified by the right-wing actors in contemporary struggles around globalization. First, we offer a chronology of debates concerning global diffusion of gender norms, tracing the consolidation of various groups into the anti-gender movement. The next section discusses how gender and globalization intersect in discursive strategies of anti-gender actors. We show that they target international …
Jak ryby w wodzie. Kultura terapii i jej krytycy
Jeśli terapeutyczność jest horyzontem kulturowym współczesności, ideologiczną podszewką neoliberalizmu, to obecny kryzys wymaga wyjścia poza ten horyzont. Tekst poddaje refleksji historyczny i polityczny wymiar terapeutycznej dominanty współczesnej kultury. Pierwsza część omawia towarzyszącą kulturze terapeutycznej wizję podmiotowości, ekspansję psychologii jako modelu poznawczego oraz orientacje polityczne krytyki kultury terapii. Część druga do…
Jewish Perversion as Strategy of Domination
This article demonstrates how anti-gender discourse – originating in the Vatican and spreading through ultra-conservative networks such as the World Congress of Families – draws on traditions of conspiratorial anti-Semitism. The repressed link takes two forms: displacement (Judaization of sexual minorities) and attribution of blame (Jews having invented ‘gender’ to destroy Christianity). The first section outlines the structural and historical ki…
Anti-gender campaigns as a reactionary response to neoliberalism
Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”
Chapter 4 looks closely at anti-genderism as an ideological construct and a cohesive discourse, focusing on its affinity to right-wing populism, i.e. the way it constructs a division between “pure people” and “corrupt elites.” It examines closely the massive discursive appropriation at the heart of anti-gender discourse: the conservative version of anti-colonial rhetoric, employed among others by Pope Francis . This discursive strategy is effecti…
Conclusion
The conclusion revisits the core findings of the book and its central conceptual proposition: the opportunistic synergy between the anti-gender campaigns and right-wing populism. This synergy plays out on two levels: ideological/discursive and strategic/organizational. As a thin-centered ideology , populism feeds on narrative structures and arguments promoted by the anti-gender movement, while the actors behind anti-gender campaigns use the organ…
Anxious parents and children in danger
Thi s chapter examines the cultural imaginary of anti-genderism and the ways it appeals to the emotions of parents: the stories it tells about identity , family and sources of personal happiness. This imagery is linked to material realities and social politics. The chapter examines parental mobilizations against “gender” and looks at specific images, narratives and arguments to show how affects and emotions are triggered, especially anger, anxiet…
Counteracting anti-gender movements
This chapter examines feminist efforts to counteract assaults on gender and sexual equality. Its focus is mostly on Poland’s Black Protests : the mass movement of 2016–2018 against the total ban on abortion proposed by the Ordo Iuris Institute. The chapter explains how mass resistance emerged and developed over time, successfully counteracting the plan to further restrict women’s reproductive rights in the country. We conceptualize the Black Prot…
Gender, anti-gender and right-wing populism
This chapter presents the book’s theoretical framework, mapping out the core categories, the methodology used and the material analyzed. It outlines the concept of opportunistic synergy, explaining how ultraconservative forces use and abuse the term “gender” and how they cooperate with right-wing populists, aiming for a wide-scale elite change. An overview of existing conceptualizations of populism and the “populist moment” is provided. The book …
Mapping the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement
This chapter outlines the intellectual sources of anti-genderism and maps out the transnational anti-gender movement. The Vatican played a key role in developing the claims used in anti-gender campaigns; in the nineties, “gender” became the new enemy of the ultraconservative wing of the Church, a generalized evil that to some extent replaced Jews in their role of scapegoat associated with modernity and moral degeneracy. In recent decades the reli…
“Worse than communism and Nazism put together”
Chapter 3 tells the story of Poland’s anti-gender campaigns beginning in 2012 and seeks to explain how they connect to both the rise of the populist right to power and their subsequent assaults on women’s reproductive rights and the LGBTQ community. Three stages of the campaign are examined, showing how the focus changed over time and how strategies of resistance evolved. The chapter looks at political uses and abuses of “gender” analyzing how an…
Nikt nie widział w tym niczego szczególnego". O kilku przeoczeniach i uniwersalizacjach w "Dwóch ojczyznach" Jana Józefa Lipskiego i o tym, co z nich wynika
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Ask a Feminist
For this edition of “Ask a Feminist,” Cynthia Enloe—feminist, activist, writer, scholar, and research professor at Clark University—speaks with special issue editors Suzanna Danuta Walters, Ratna Kapur, and Agnieszka Graff about the relations between gender and militarism and imperialism, in particular about the role of gender in the rise of the imperialist, fascist (or neofascist), populist (or neopopulist) social movements that seem to be spann…
Introduction
In this special issue of Signs, the contributors address the complex and powerful relationship between gender and the rise of the global Right. This discussion demonstrates how, in transnational terms, the Right has become a significant player in gender politics. It resists the denaturalizing, deconstructive analysis of gender and sex in critical, feminist, and queer scholarship and directs its efforts toward reinstating dominant essentialized ge…
Claiming the Shipyard, the Cowboy Hat, and the Anchor for Women
This article examines the evolving role of national symbolism in Polish feminist discourses and activist practices since 1989. Three case studies involving symbolic appropriation are presented; in each, cultural signs of great importance to the national imaginary are put to work for women’s equality in acts of resistance to nationalist rhetoric. The first case is the graffiti reportedly seen on the wall of the Gdańsk Shipyard during the 1980 Soli…
"Gender as "Ebola from Brussels
This article examines the recent wave of grassroots mobilizations opposing gender equality, LGBT rights and sex education, which vilify the term gender in public debates and policy document. The anti-gender movement emerged simultaneously in various locations after 2010. We argue that it is not just another wave of anti-feminist backlash, or a new tactic of the Vatican in its ongoing efforts to undermine gender equality, but a new ideological and…
Gender Ideology’
Uncertainty evaluation in air quality planning decisions
Overview of current regional and local scale air quality modelling practices
The 2008 European Air Quality Directive (AQD) (2008/50/EC) encourages the use of models in combination with monitoring in a range of applications. It also requires Member States to design appropriate air quality plans for zones where the air quality does not comply with the AQD limit values. In order to cope with these various elements, a wide range of different modeling methods have been developed and applied by EU Member States in the last deca…
Report from the gender trenches
Looking at Pictures of Gay Men
The essay examines the dynamics of the politicization of homophobia in the recent period of right-wing rule in Poland, which followed the country's 2004 EU accession. It argues that the question of sexuality became a boundary marker, a reference point for political self-definition and national pride. The essay looks at angry responses to the three resolutions against homophobia issued by the European parliament in this period, comments on the rel…
We Are (Not All) Homophobes
"Gender as "Ebola from Brussels
This article examines the recent wave of grassroots mobilizations opposing gender equality, LGBT rights and sex education, which vilify the term gender in public debates and policy document. The anti-gender movement emerged simultaneously in various locations after 2010. We argue that it is not just another wave of anti-feminist backlash, or a new tactic of the Vatican in its ongoing efforts to undermine gender equality, but a new ideological and…
Report from the gender trenches
Looking at Pictures of Gay Men
The essay examines the dynamics of the politicization of homophobia in the recent period of right-wing rule in Poland, which followed the country's 2004 EU accession. It argues that the question of sexuality became a boundary marker, a reference point for political self-definition and national pride. The essay looks at angry responses to the three resolutions against homophobia issued by the European parliament in this period, comments on the rel…
We Are (Not All) Homophobes
Gender Ideology’
Anti-gender campaigns as a reactionary response to neoliberalism
Claiming the Shipyard, the Cowboy Hat, and the Anchor for Women
This article examines the evolving role of national symbolism in Polish feminist discourses and activist practices since 1989. Three case studies involving symbolic appropriation are presented; in each, cultural signs of great importance to the national imaginary are put to work for women’s equality in acts of resistance to nationalist rhetoric. The first case is the graffiti reportedly seen on the wall of the Gdańsk Shipyard during the 1980 Soli…
Gender danger. Mapping a decade of research on anti-gender politics
As observed by Kuhar and Paternotte (2017) in their pivotal book Anti-gender Campaigns in Europe, initially campaigns and movements against ‘gender’ were interpreted as national phenomena but over
The West Is Trying Too Hard
This paper examines how the term 'gender' has been re-signified by the right-wing actors in contemporary struggles around globalization. First, we offer a chronology of debates concerning global diffusion of gender norms, tracing the consolidation of various groups into the anti-gender movement. The next section discusses how gender and globalization intersect in discursive strategies of anti-gender actors. We show that they target international …
Jewish Perversion as Strategy of Domination
This article demonstrates how anti-gender discourse – originating in the Vatican and spreading through ultra-conservative networks such as the World Congress of Families – draws on traditions of conspiratorial anti-Semitism. The repressed link takes two forms: displacement (Judaization of sexual minorities) and attribution of blame (Jews having invented ‘gender’ to destroy Christianity). The first section outlines the structural and historical ki…
Overview of current regional and local scale air quality modelling practices
The 2008 European Air Quality Directive (AQD) (2008/50/EC) encourages the use of models in combination with monitoring in a range of applications. It also requires Member States to design appropriate air quality plans for zones where the air quality does not comply with the AQD limit values. In order to cope with these various elements, a wide range of different modeling methods have been developed and applied by EU Member States in the last deca…
We Are (Not All) Homophobes
Looking at Pictures of Gay Men
The essay examines the dynamics of the politicization of homophobia in the recent period of right-wing rule in Poland, which followed the country's 2004 EU accession. It argues that the question of sexuality became a boundary marker, a reference point for political self-definition and national pride. The essay looks at angry responses to the three resolutions against homophobia issued by the European parliament in this period, comments on the rel…
Report from the gender trenches
Gender Ideology’
Uncertainty evaluation in air quality planning decisions
Overview of current regional and local scale air quality modelling practices
The 2008 European Air Quality Directive (AQD) (2008/50/EC) encourages the use of models in combination with monitoring in a range of applications. It also requires Member States to design appropriate air quality plans for zones where the air quality does not comply with the AQD limit values. In order to cope with these various elements, a wide range of different modeling methods have been developed and applied by EU Member States in the last deca…
"Gender as "Ebola from Brussels
This article examines the recent wave of grassroots mobilizations opposing gender equality, LGBT rights and sex education, which vilify the term gender in public debates and policy document. The anti-gender movement emerged simultaneously in various locations after 2010. We argue that it is not just another wave of anti-feminist backlash, or a new tactic of the Vatican in its ongoing efforts to undermine gender equality, but a new ideological and…
Ask a Feminist
For this edition of “Ask a Feminist,” Cynthia Enloe—feminist, activist, writer, scholar, and research professor at Clark University—speaks with special issue editors Suzanna Danuta Walters, Ratna Kapur, and Agnieszka Graff about the relations between gender and militarism and imperialism, in particular about the role of gender in the rise of the imperialist, fascist (or neofascist), populist (or neopopulist) social movements that seem to be spann…
Introduction
In this special issue of Signs, the contributors address the complex and powerful relationship between gender and the rise of the global Right. This discussion demonstrates how, in transnational terms, the Right has become a significant player in gender politics. It resists the denaturalizing, deconstructive analysis of gender and sex in critical, feminist, and queer scholarship and directs its efforts toward reinstating dominant essentialized ge…
Claiming the Shipyard, the Cowboy Hat, and the Anchor for Women
This article examines the evolving role of national symbolism in Polish feminist discourses and activist practices since 1989. Three case studies involving symbolic appropriation are presented; in each, cultural signs of great importance to the national imaginary are put to work for women’s equality in acts of resistance to nationalist rhetoric. The first case is the graffiti reportedly seen on the wall of the Gdańsk Shipyard during the 1980 Soli…
Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”
Chapter 4 looks closely at anti-genderism as an ideological construct and a cohesive discourse, focusing on its affinity to right-wing populism, i.e. the way it constructs a division between “pure people” and “corrupt elites.” It examines closely the massive discursive appropriation at the heart of anti-gender discourse: the conservative version of anti-colonial rhetoric, employed among others by Pope Francis . This discursive strategy is effecti…
Conclusion
The conclusion revisits the core findings of the book and its central conceptual proposition: the opportunistic synergy between the anti-gender campaigns and right-wing populism. This synergy plays out on two levels: ideological/discursive and strategic/organizational. As a thin-centered ideology , populism feeds on narrative structures and arguments promoted by the anti-gender movement, while the actors behind anti-gender campaigns use the organ…
Anxious parents and children in danger
Thi s chapter examines the cultural imaginary of anti-genderism and the ways it appeals to the emotions of parents: the stories it tells about identity , family and sources of personal happiness. This imagery is linked to material realities and social politics. The chapter examines parental mobilizations against “gender” and looks at specific images, narratives and arguments to show how affects and emotions are triggered, especially anger, anxiet…
Counteracting anti-gender movements
This chapter examines feminist efforts to counteract assaults on gender and sexual equality. Its focus is mostly on Poland’s Black Protests : the mass movement of 2016–2018 against the total ban on abortion proposed by the Ordo Iuris Institute. The chapter explains how mass resistance emerged and developed over time, successfully counteracting the plan to further restrict women’s reproductive rights in the country. We conceptualize the Black Prot…
Gender, anti-gender and right-wing populism
This chapter presents the book’s theoretical framework, mapping out the core categories, the methodology used and the material analyzed. It outlines the concept of opportunistic synergy, explaining how ultraconservative forces use and abuse the term “gender” and how they cooperate with right-wing populists, aiming for a wide-scale elite change. An overview of existing conceptualizations of populism and the “populist moment” is provided. The book …
Mapping the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement
This chapter outlines the intellectual sources of anti-genderism and maps out the transnational anti-gender movement. The Vatican played a key role in developing the claims used in anti-gender campaigns; in the nineties, “gender” became the new enemy of the ultraconservative wing of the Church, a generalized evil that to some extent replaced Jews in their role of scapegoat associated with modernity and moral degeneracy. In recent decades the reli…
“Worse than communism and Nazism put together”
Chapter 3 tells the story of Poland’s anti-gender campaigns beginning in 2012 and seeks to explain how they connect to both the rise of the populist right to power and their subsequent assaults on women’s reproductive rights and the LGBTQ community. Three stages of the campaign are examined, showing how the focus changed over time and how strategies of resistance evolved. The chapter looks at political uses and abuses of “gender” analyzing how an…
Nikt nie widział w tym niczego szczególnego". O kilku przeoczeniach i uniwersalizacjach w "Dwóch ojczyznach" Jana Józefa Lipskiego i o tym, co z nich wynika
21 cm
Jewish Perversion as Strategy of Domination
This article demonstrates how anti-gender discourse – originating in the Vatican and spreading through ultra-conservative networks such as the World Congress of Families – draws on traditions of conspiratorial anti-Semitism. The repressed link takes two forms: displacement (Judaization of sexual minorities) and attribution of blame (Jews having invented ‘gender’ to destroy Christianity). The first section outlines the structural and historical ki…
Anti-gender campaigns as a reactionary response to neoliberalism
Jak ryby w wodzie. Kultura terapii i jej krytycy
Jeśli terapeutyczność jest horyzontem kulturowym współczesności, ideologiczną podszewką neoliberalizmu, to obecny kryzys wymaga wyjścia poza ten horyzont. Tekst poddaje refleksji historyczny i polityczny wymiar terapeutycznej dominanty współczesnej kultury. Pierwsza część omawia towarzyszącą kulturze terapeutycznej wizję podmiotowości, ekspansję psychologii jako modelu poznawczego oraz orientacje polityczne krytyki kultury terapii. Część druga do…
Gender danger. Mapping a decade of research on anti-gender politics
As observed by Kuhar and Paternotte (2017) in their pivotal book Anti-gender Campaigns in Europe, initially campaigns and movements against ‘gender’ were interpreted as national phenomena but over
The West Is Trying Too Hard
This paper examines how the term 'gender' has been re-signified by the right-wing actors in contemporary struggles around globalization. First, we offer a chronology of debates concerning global diffusion of gender norms, tracing the consolidation of various groups into the anti-gender movement. The next section discusses how gender and globalization intersect in discursive strategies of anti-gender actors. We show that they target international …
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (11 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)