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Podcast: New Books in Gender
Episode: How Authoritarians Exploit Gender
Description: Gender is becoming a central battleground in contemporary authoritarian politics, but how do autocrats manipulate these debates to their own advantage? Some regimes now pursue a double strategy of simultaneous âgender bashingâ and âgender washingâ: mobilising anti-gender rhetoric and âtraditional valuesâ to attack feminists and roll back equality, while at the same time promoting loyal women into prominent roles to project an image of modernity, reform, and inclusion at home and abroad. By combining repression with reputation laundering, they mask authoritarian practices and complicate the struggle for genuine gender equality. Join the People, Power, Politics podcast as we talk to Elin Bjarne...