Cited by 142Gender and Feminist StudiesLGBTQ Health, Identity, and PolicyShort Stories in Global Literature

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Introduction

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Bassi, Serena, LaFleur, Greta·2022·TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

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This introduction argues that twenty-first-century TERF/gender-critical and anti-gender movements are best understood as a “postfascist feminism” that syncretically combines fascist tropes, neoliberalism, and elements of liberal feminism. It frames trans exclusion as a complex palimpsest rather than a merely reactionary anti-feminist project, and introduces a special issue on these movements and alliances.

Key findings

  • The authors propose “postfascist feminism” and “a postfascist feminism of the 99 percent” to describe gender-critical/TERF politics: an injured mass of “normal women” defined by ontologically understood gendered identification, replacing class-based feminist solidarity with a shared self-definition as biologically overdetermined and authentically gendered subjects.
  • They argue gender-critical movements repackage right-wing populist oppositions between “corrupt global elites” and “the people” into “genderists” versus “normal everyday people”; the “genderists” include trans celebrities and athletes, reproductive rights activists, women/gender/sexuality studies scholars, the European Union, and liberal foundations like the Open Society.
  • They trace historical continuities between contemporary trans-exclusionary rhetoric and fascist tropes, especially the Fascist Italy/Nazi Germany “crisis-woman” and degeneracy/perversion anxieties, which resurface in claims about women’s safety, bathrooms, and sports.
  • They insist that trans-exclusionary and gender-critical feminisms are feminisms, not simply anti-feminist movements, and must be historicized alongside white supremacist, imperialist, and liberal feminisms; the special issue examines alliances including second-wave US feminists and Zionism, online atheist groups and TERFs, and French materialist feminists and European religious conservatives.

Methods

  • Design: theoretical and editorial introduction to a TSQ special issue; it advances a framing argument through conceptual and historical synthesis rather than empirical research.
  • Data/sample: cites secondary scholarship, media, legal, and political examples, including the October 2018 US Department of Health and Human Services memo, the UK Gender Recognition Act reform process after a 2015 parliamentary inquiry, the Vatican’s 2006 Lexicon, and Soule v. CIAC; the special issue includes essays discussing trans-exclusionary politics in the United States, England, Japan, and France.
  • Main analysis: builds on Enzo Traverso’s “postfascism,” Ernst Bloch on fascism as cultural synthesis, and decades of woman-of-color, Third World, and Black feminist critiques to argue that gender-critical movements function as a large-scale translation process producing “postfascist feminism of the 99 percent.”

Limitations

  • The paper states that the special issue offers “no definitive conclusions” and that received essays clustered around relatively well-studied sites, primarily the United States and England, with additional essays on Japan and France; the editors’ original vision of many countries, languages, and translations was not realized, and the issue cannot offer a comprehensive account of trans-exclusionary politics.
  • Evident from the text: as an introduction/editorial, it presents a framing argument and illustrative examples rather than systematic empirical evidence or a complete survey of gender-critical movements.

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Crossref · 10.1215/23289252-9836008

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  • The authors state this as an assumption.

    Trans-exclusionary and gender-critical feminisms are feminisms.

    “This special issue, then, proceeds from the assumption that transexclusionary and gender-critical feminisms are feminisms and thus demand careful historicization, analysis, and contextualization as a recent (but not in any way new) formation of feminism that has gained terrifying traction on a global scale over the last fifty or so years.”
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  1. Anatrella, 1998, La différence interdite: Sexualité, éducation, violence trente ans après Mai 68
  2. Bernini, 2018, The ‘Teoria del Gender’ in Italy: A Partisan Essay on a Floating Signifier, Revista psicologia política, 18, 543
  3. Bowen Angela . 2021. “Calling the Question: Is Womanism Feminism?” Journal of International Women's Studies22, no. 8. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss8/41.
  4. Eco, 1995, Ur-Fascism
  5. Murphy, 2017, The Economization of Life
  6. Pontifical Council for the Family, 2006, Lexicon: Ambiguous and Debatable Terms Regarding Family Life and Ethical Questions
  7. Spivak, 1988, Can the Subaltern Speak?, 271
  8. Stryker, 2006, (De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies, 1
  9. Wells, 1895, The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

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Metadata

Authors
Bassi, S., & LaFleur, G.
Venue
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Published
2022-08-01
Volume
9
Issue
3
Pages
311-333
ISSN
  • 2328-9252 (ISSN-L)
  • 2328-9260
OpenAlex
W4312266104
Cited by
142
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 42 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 2
FWCI
34.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Short Stories in Global Literature

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