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This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU). It provides not only thoughtful reflections on the topic but also a wealth of new empirical findings — arising from legal and policy analysis, large-scale sociological investigations and country case studies. Theoretical concepts come from institutional analysis, the study of social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. The authors discuss emerging Europe-wide activism for LGBT rights and analyze issues such as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn ‘sexual others’ into ‘national others,’ the actions and rhetoric of church actors as powerful counter-mobilizers against LGBT rights, and the role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights. .

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Community organization --- Human rights --- LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex and asexual) --- transseksualiteit --- European Union --- Eastern and Central Europe --- Minorités sexuelles --- Homosexuels --- Activité politique --- Droits --- Aspect politique

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This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Political sociology --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- History of civilization --- History of Africa --- Afrikaans --- Afrikaanse cultuur --- etnologie --- cultuur --- geschiedenis --- politiek --- gender --- North Africa --- Africa --- Femmes --- Conditions sociales --- Histoire. --- Conditions économiques --- Activité politique --- Women --- Feminism. --- Feminism --- feminism. --- Social conditions. --- Political activity --- Economic conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- Political activity. --- Africa. --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Sex. --- Identity politics. --- African History. --- African Culture. --- African Politics. --- Gender Studies. --- Politics and Gender. --- Women's History / History of Gender. --- History. --- Politics and government.