Rethinking Online Anti-Gender Hate Speech

Moa Bladini is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research fields are criminal law and criminal procedure law. In her previous research, Dr Bladini invesitgated the concept of truth, objectivity ideals and legitimization strategies in judicial activity. In her dissertation critical discourse analysis was a central method. Dr Bladini's research mainly deals with the concept of truth, objectivity ideals and legitimization strategies in the legal judicial activity.Eva-Maria Svensson is Professor in the Department of Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research is mainly concentrated on legal philosophy and theory, particularly in the field feminist/gender legal studies, gender equality law and policy, and freedom of speech. Professor Svensson also does research in the fields of ageing and capability, gender equality in the Arctic as well as Studies of Academic Knowledge in Law. She participates in several research networks, in jurisprudence, feminist/gender studies, socio-legal studies, critical legal studies, free speech issues, such as the international network on Gender Equality in the Arctic TUARQ, the Nordic Network in Women’s Law and Feminist/Gender Legal Studies, several International Network in Feminist and Feminist Legal Studies, Critical legal scholars, NORSIL (the Nordic Research Network for Sámi and Indigenous People's Law), and the International Association for Legal Philosophy and Social Philosophy (IVR).

• 1 Introduction – anti-gender hate speech 2 Theoretical perspectives and democratic framework 3 Visiting the sphere of regulation 4 Anti-gender hate speech counteracts gender equality 5 Freedom of expression as more than an individual right 6 Combating anti-gender hate speech with criminal regulation 7 Anti-gender hate speech regulation revisited