Analyses of the opposition against gender equality in Europe mostly address the opponents of women’s rights as inherently anti-democratic, and feminist actors as democratic by definition. But Joana Lilli Hofstetter and Lucrecia Rubio Grundell use sex work as an example of how anti-democratic backlashes against women’s rights can also be promoted by feminist actors
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore Florence
Joana is also a member of the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos).
As part of the ECSEuro project she currently carries out research on the enactment of citizenship and solidarity in grassroots initiatives in Europe.
She holds a PhD in Political Science and Sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore, with a dissertation on the collective self-organisation of sex workers and prostitution politics in Germany.
Her key areas of research are social movements organising at the intersection of gender, sexuality and labour, as well as feminist theories, participatory methodologies, and research ethics.
