Sarah Bracke is associate professor of sociology of gender and sexuality at the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a senior researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender, Diversity, and Intersectionality (RHEA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel when researching and writing her contribution to this book. She holds a PhD in women’s studies from Utrecht University, and held visiting appointments at UC Berkeley (Critical Theory), Harvard Divinity School (Women’s Studies in Religion Program) and Harvard University (Center for European Studies). She has written extensively about agency, subjectivity, gender, religion, secularism and multiculturalism in Europe. She has also produced the documentary Pink Camouflage (2009) on the use of the rhetoric of LGBT rights within current civilizational geo-politics.
Monica Cornejo is associate professor at the Social Anthropology Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is a founder fellow of the research group ARESIMA (Institute of Anthropology of Madrid) and the co-director of GINADYC (Universidad Complutense). She has studied popular Catholicism since 2002. Since 2010, she has also been working on contemporary spiritualties in Madrid. She is the author and the editor of several books, including La Construcción Antropológica de la Religión (Ministerio de Cultura). She has also authored numerous book chapters and scientific articles, including “Une décennie de croisade anti-genre en Espagne (2004–2014)” (Sextant, with José Ignacio Pichardo Galán).
Wannes Dupont is a Cabeaux-Jacobs Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation at the History Department of Yale University and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders. His work and publications address the history of sexuality and homosexuality, biopolitics, religion, war, identity and (de)constructions of Western modernity. He coordinates the sexuality network of the biannual European Social Sciences History Conference and is currently editing a comparative history of Catholicism and contraception in post-war Europe.
Sara Garbagnoli is a PhD candidate at the Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research interests lie at the intersections of feminist theory, discourse analysis and sociology of social movements, focusing on the historical process of emergence of the field of gender studies and the resistances to it. Sara is intensively involved in academic and civil society debates in France and Italy. Her publications include numerous book chapters and articles in journal such as Genesis, Religion & Gender, Synergies Italie.
Agnieszka Graff is associate professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, where she teaches US culture, literature and film, African American studies and gender studies. She has authored the books Świat bez kobiet (World without Women, 2001), Rykoszetem (Stray Bullets – Gender, Sexuality and Nation, 2008), Magma (The Quagmire Effect, 2010) and Matka Feministka (Mother and Feminist, 2014), as well as numerous articles and chapters in books and journals such as Public Culture and Feminist Studies. Graff is also an activist and media commentator: a founding member of the Women’s 8th of March Alliance, a co-organizer and speaker of Congress of Polish Women and the collaborator of initiatives such as Helsinki Foundation, the Batory Foundation, the Heinrich Boell Foundation and Political Critique. She writes for major journals and newspapers (including Gazeta Wyborcza), and she has authored the introductions to Polish editions of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique (2012), Susan Faludi’s Backlash (2013) and Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider (2015).
Amir Hodžić holds a BA in sociology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and an MA in gender and culture studies from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. For the past 19 years Amir has been involved in research, education and activism related to sex/gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights and LGBTIQ issues. Amir works with and for various local, regional and international stakeholders. You can find more about Amir at www.policy.hu/hodzic/.
Elżbieta Korolczuk is a sociologist, activist and commentator. She works as a researcher at Södertörn University, Sweden, and teaches gender studies at University of Warsaw. Her work focuses on social movements, civil society and gender (especially motherhood/fatherhood, reproductive technologies and feminisms). Her recent publications include two volumes exploring ideologies, practices and representations of parenthood in Poland and Russia, which she co-edited with Renata E. Hryciuk, and an edited volume Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia 2017, with Katalin Fabian. For over a decade she was a member of Warsaw based informal feminist group Women’s 8 of March Alliance. Now she is engaged in the activities of the Association “For Our Children” fighting for the changes in the Polish child support system and serves as a board member of “Akcja Demokracja” Foundation.
Eszter Kováts holds a BA in Sociology, and an MA in political science & French and German studies. She is a PhD student in political science at ELTE University, Budapest. She has been working at the Hungarian Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) since 2009, and, since 2012, she has been responsible for the FES gender program for East-Central Europe. She has co-edited the volume Gender as Symbolic Glue. The Position and Role of Conservative and Far Right Parties in the Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Europe (FES/FEPS, 2015) and Solidarity in Struggle – Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberalism in East-Central Europe (FES, 2016).
Roman Kuhar is associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where he teaches courses on gender, sexuality, popular culture and everyday life. He holds a PhD in sociology and is currently the head of the Department of Sociology and its research director. He has authored several articles in academic journals, book chapters and the books Media Construction of Homosexuality (2003), At the Crossroad of Discrimination (2009) and (with A. Švab) The Unbearable Comfort of Privacy (2006). He has also co-edited Beyond the Pink Curtain: Everyday Life of LGBT People in Eastern Europe (2007, with J. Takács) and Doing Families: Gay and Lesbian Family Practices (2011, with J. Takács).
Stefanie Mayer studied political science at the University of Vienna and completed her dissertation on white feminist activism and (anti-)racism in February 2016. She has been awarded the dissertation award of the research network “Gender & Agency” of the University of Vienna and the dissertation award of the Austrian Society for Political Science (ÖGPW). Publication is scheduled for spring 2017. Stefanie works as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Applied Sciences, Department of Public Management, in Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include feminist theories and politics, critical research on racism, right-wing extremism and right-wing populism as well as politics of history.
Mary McAuliffe is an assistant professor in gender studies at University College Dublin (UCD). Her research interests include Irish women’s history, feminism and feminist politics, gendered violence in war and revolution, memory and commemoration. Her latest publications include We Were There; 77 Women of the Easter Rising (co-written with Liz Gillis) and Kerry 1916; Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising, on which she was co-editor. She also co-edited Irish Feminisms: Past, Present and Future (2013) and Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland (2015). She was a historical consultant on the Richmond Barracks permanent 1916 commemorative exhibition and on the advisory committee of the National Museum of Ireland 1916 Exhibition. She is past president of the Women’s History Association of Ireland (2011–2014) and a committee member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians. She is an advocate of @manelwatchire on Twitter and is actively engaged on activism for women’s rights in Ireland. She is also a frequent commentator on history, feminism and issues of (in)equality on TV/radio and in the print media in Ireland.
Kevin Moss, the Jean Thomson Fulton Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA), is chair of the Russian Department and director of Russian and East European Studies and holds a joint position in the Russian Department and the program in gender, sexuality and feminist studies. Since 1990 he has studied gay and lesbian culture in Russia and Eastern Europe, and in 1997 he edited the first anthology of gay writing from Russia, Out of the Blue: Russia’s Hidden Gay Literature. Recently he has published on films from former Yugoslavia with gay protagonists and on pride parades.
David Paternotte is lecturer in sociology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he is the co-director of STRIGES and the Atelier Genre(s) et Sexualité(s). His work focuses on gender, sexuality and social movements, with a focus on transnational lesbian and gay activism. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he has authored the book Revendiquer le “mariage gay”: Belgique, France, Espagne (2011) and is currently preparing a monograph on ILGA. He has also edited numerous collected volumes, including The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State (2011, with Manon Tremblay and Carol Johnson), LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe? (2014, with Phillip Ayoub) and the Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism (2015, with Manon Tremblay). He is the co-director of the journal Sextant and the book series “Global Queer Politics”.
Andrea Pető is a professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and a doctor of science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Recent publications include the book Political Justice in Budapest after WWII (Politikai igazságszolgáltatás a II. világháború utáni Budapesten 2012 and 2015 with Ildikó Barna), and the coedited volume Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories. Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence (2016, with Ayse Gül Altinay). She serves as an associate editor of the European Journal of Women’s Studies. In 2005, she was awarded the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the president of the Hungarian Republic and the Bolyai Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006.
José Ignacio Pichardo Galán (PhD in social anthropology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 2008) is associate professor of social anthropology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and the co-director of the research group “Antropología, diversidad y convivencia” (Anthropology, Diversity and Integration). His research focuses on gender, kinship and sexuality, and his doctoral dissertation examined the influence of people with same-sex sexual relations on the social conceptions of the family. In addition to book chapters and articles on sexual diversity, LGBT youth, sexual education, sexual rights and homophobia, he has co-edited a special issue on Spain in Sexualities and authored Entender la diversidad familiar: relaciones homosexuales y nuevos modelos de familia (2009). Together with Mónica Cornejo, he analyses the intersections between gender, sexuality and religion.
Birgit Sauer is professor of political science at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. She studied political science and German literature at the University of Tuebingen and at the Free University of Berlin. She was one of the founders of the caucus “Gender and Politics” of the German Political Science Association and director of the graduate school “Gender, Violence and Agency in the Era of Globalisation” (GIK). Since 2014, she has been the speaker of the Research Network “Gender and Agency” at the University of Vienna. Her research fields include gender and governance, gender equality policies, gender and emotions in organizations, gender, religion and democracy, right-wing populism and racism, theories of state and democracy. Recent publications include A Man’s World? Political Masculinities in Literature and Culture (2014, edited with Kathleen Starck) and Politics, Religion and Gender. Framing and Regulating the Veil (2011, edited with Sieglinde Rosenberger).
Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer is an assistant professor of American studies at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His research examines how institutions, organizations and individuals deal with sexuality and family across national contexts. His dissertation compared the role of “experts” in French and American debates over the legal recognition of parenting and partnerships for same-sex couples. He has authored and co-authored articles published in Sociological Forum, the Annual Review of Sociology and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.
Aleksandar Štulhofer is professor of sociology and the head of the Sexology unit at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is a member of the International Academy of Sex Research and the World Association for Sexual Health and one of the co-founders of the Croatian Sex Therapists’ Association. Since 2005, he has been consulting for the World Health Organization in the area of behavioral HIV surveillance. His current research interests include sexual risk-taking in adolescence, sexual health disturbances, behavioural HIV surveillance among most at risk populations, hypersexuality and the effects of pornography use on sexual socialization. Dr. Štulhofer is a member of the scientific committee of the European Federation of Sexology. He serves on the editorial board of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Sex Research and Sexuality and Culture.
Josselin Tricou is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, University Paris VIII, France, and a member of the Laboratoire d’étude de genre et de sexualité (CNRS-UMR 8238). He prepares a dissertation on masculinities in the Catholic Church. He has authored numerous book chapters and articles in journals such Sextant, tic&société, Estudos de Religião.
Paula-Irene Villa was trained in social sciences at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She obtained her MA and PhD from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and her Habilitation in Sociology at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. After several academic positions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, she was appointed as the holder of chair for sociology and gender studies at the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on social and gender theory, embodiment, biopolitics, care and popular cultures/cultural studies. She has directed research projects on parenting, cosmetic surgery, gender equality policies in academia, food/fitness and others. Currently, she is the speaker of a multidisciplinary research network on Gender and Care “ForGenderCare”, an elected member of the board of the German Sociological Association (DGS) and a founding member and a former elected board member of the German Association of Gender Studies. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters and 9 authored or edited books, including (Anti)Genderismus. Sexualität und Geschlecht als Schauplätze aktueller politischer Auseinandersetzungen (transcript, 2015, edited with Sabine Hark).