@inbook{c765c373169d4b9ba4d3c3e6effba3e2,
title = "Paradoxes of the Right-Wing Sexual/Gender Politics in Hungary: Right-Wing Populism and the Ban of Gender Studies",
abstract = "In this chapter, I study gender and sexual politics in right-wing populism applied in Hungarian state propaganda during the 2010s with a focus on the intersection of misogyny and transphobia. I address the paradoxes of sexual politics within the dominant discourses of hate-speech mobilized routinely around the discreditation of gender as ideology at the intersection of anti-intellectualism, Islamophobic anti-immigration, and antisemitic anti-liberalism. I also examine the stance by feminists self-identifying as actors of progressive criticism and show that their rhetoric ends up articulating an opening for the right-wing ideologies of transphobia within feminism. I show that this conservative stance is the result of prioritizing the political economy as if a purely material cause of the regime{\textquoteright}s hostile gender politics vis-a-vis a merely cultural and as such allegedly depoliticizing activism of transgender people. I propose their relative distinction that is necessary for building an effective coalition against the regime.",
keywords = "Anti-intellectualism, Economization of the political, Islamophobia, Neoliberalism and feminism, Transphobia",
author = "Erzs{\'e}bet Bar{\'a}t",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-81341-3_7",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030813406",
series = "Global Queer Politics",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "173--199",
editor = "Cornelia M{\"o}ser and Jennifer Ramme and Judit Tak{\'a}cs",
booktitle = "Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe",
}