| Title | ‘Gender Activists Will Kidnap Your Kids’: The Construction of Feminist and LGBT+ Rights Activists as Modern Folk Devils in Czech Anti-Gender Campaigns |
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| Contributor | Eva Svatoňová (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-13-8 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Publisher | Helsinki University Press |
| Published on | 2021-12-13 |
| Long abstract | This chapter examines how internet forums such as Facebook can be used in creating and spreading misleading stories and stimulating fear and panic. With the example of the Czech society, the author analyses various web forums that are based on anti-LGBT rights and anti-feminist ideologies, promoting these as threats to nuclear families and traditional gender norms. The text shows the paradoxical portrayal of LGBT activists as, on the one hand, freaks living on the fringe of society, not much more than a laughing stock, and, on the other hand, as a threat with the potential power to destroy traditional values in Czech society. |
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Eva Svatoňová is a PhD Candidate at the School of Culture and Society at University of Aarhus Denmark. She received her master`s degrees from the Charles University in Prague and Aarhus University. In her doctoral research she investigates the discourses of anti-gender campaigns in Czechia and Slovakia. In her work she focuses on the articulation of discourses and their travelling as well as conducts life-history interviews with activists involved in the campaigning against “gender ideology“.