The limits of language: gender apartheid and public opinion.
The prominent #EndGenderApartheid campaign was launched in 2023, calling for the global recognition of the crime of gender apartheid. A key component of the campaign's strategy is to mobilize a global mass movement akin to that against racial apartheid in South Africa. The implicit assumption is tha...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 102; no. 4; pp. 1393 - 1414 |
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