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gender norms and is considered one of the first English novels about trans-
gender issues. The title clearly highlights that the opera’s title role is played
by a transgender person. Here I also included the play I haven’t stopped
since the morning by the Croatian drama writer Una Vizek, which speaks
about the power relations between men and women in the private sphere
because in the imaginary matriarchal society women hold all the power,
while the men are at home, taking care of the children, doing the laundry
and cooking… they haven’t stopped since morning.
Given the variety of actors, different hierarchical relationships are
mentioned; for example, in the case of the liberal mosque, the issues are
gender equality and the acceptance of LGBTIQ identities, the right of wom-
en to pray alongside men and asking for the possibility of women to lead
in prayer as well as social implications of feminist values.
I’ve been fighting against so-called political Islam, against patriarchy and tradi-
tional structures in my Turkish-Kurdish community since I was 15-years-old – says
this feminist, whose life was transformed because of her activism. (FA–1)
And while religious freedom is one of the basic human rights, it is not more impor-
tant than other rights, such as women’s rights or sexual rights. And those rights also
have to be respected. (FA–1)
This theme further broaches a number of subthemes important to
feminism and feminist theory; for example, the literary work of Virginia
Woolf touches upon the issue of identity: the novel … written in a satirical
biographical manner, she dedicated to her female lover and long-time friend
Vita Sackville-West, an eccentric British poetess. Another theme which was
introduced is that of racism, i.e. the reinforcement of nationalist strategies
which blame the disempowerment of European workers on migrants and
which also serve to strengthen the right-wing options. Further, the sub-
theme of femonationalism was mentioned, in the sense of neonationalists
and neoliberals exploiting feminist ideas. The noted issues are some of the
main contemporary political and feminist questions in the European and
global contexts.
Racism definitely plays a role in strengthening the right-wing movement by spread-
ing the idea that all our problems are caused by migrants. This is a classic right-
wing nationalist strategy. (FA–2)
I view femonationalism as an integral part of the neoliberal reorganisation of the
social, labour and state immigration policies within the context of the mentioned
financial crisis. It is also an attempt by west European parties to advance their
xenophobic politics by advocating for gender equality. It is actually fascinating
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gender norms and is considered one of the first English novels about trans-
gender issues. The title clearly highlights that the opera’s title role is played
by a transgender person. Here I also included the play I haven’t stopped
since the morning by the Croatian drama writer Una Vizek, which speaks
about the power relations between men and women in the private sphere
because in the imaginary matriarchal society women hold all the power,
while the men are at home, taking care of the children, doing the laundry
and cooking… they haven’t stopped since morning.
Given the variety of actors, different hierarchical relationships are
mentioned; for example, in the case of the liberal mosque, the issues are
gender equality and the acceptance of LGBTIQ identities, the right of wom-
en to pray alongside men and asking for the possibility of women to lead
in prayer as well as social implications of feminist values.
I’ve been fighting against so-called political Islam, against patriarchy and tradi-
tional structures in my Turkish-Kurdish community since I was 15-years-old – says
this feminist, whose life was transformed because of her activism. (FA–1)
And while religious freedom is one of the basic human rights, it is not more impor-
tant than other rights, such as women’s rights or sexual rights. And those rights also
have to be respected. (FA–1)
This theme further broaches a number of subthemes important to
feminism and feminist theory; for example, the literary work of Virginia
Woolf touches upon the issue of identity: the novel … written in a satirical
biographical manner, she dedicated to her female lover and long-time friend
Vita Sackville-West, an eccentric British poetess. Another theme which was
introduced is that of racism, i.e. the reinforcement of nationalist strategies
which blame the disempowerment of European workers on migrants and
which also serve to strengthen the right-wing options. Further, the sub-
theme of femonationalism was mentioned, in the sense of neonationalists
and neoliberals exploiting feminist ideas. The noted issues are some of the
main contemporary political and feminist questions in the European and
global contexts.
Racism definitely plays a role in strengthening the right-wing movement by spread-
ing the idea that all our problems are caused by migrants. This is a classic right-
wing nationalist strategy. (FA–2)
I view femonationalism as an integral part of the neoliberal reorganisation of the
social, labour and state immigration policies within the context of the mentioned
financial crisis. It is also an attempt by west European parties to advance their
xenophobic politics by advocating for gender equality. It is actually fascinating
95
