"Backlash" in historical context

TL;DR: The backlash against gender-sensitive responses to women's victimization, offending, and imprisonment is inseparable from contemporary reaction against feminism and other progressive movements, and the backlash against the American Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) provides a prime example of this resistance.

TL;DR: Antifeminist mobilisation is growing in the United Nations and it is led by a coalition of certain post-Soviet, Catholic, and Islamic states; the United States; the Vatican; conservative nongovernmental organizations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that while war creates certain opportunities for women, a revitalization of patriarchy in the aftermath can undermine these gains, drawing on more than 250 interviews with women in both countries, they ultimately question the extent to which postwar mobili...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the process of implementing the quota has shaped Kenyan women's power more broadly, and they affirm and refine the literature on quotas by making two conceptual contributions: (1) quota design can inadvertently create new inequalities among women in government, and (2) women's entry into previously male-dominated spaces can be met with patriarchal backlash, amplifying gender oppression.