Burning in the 21st century

What lies behind "gender ideology"

Adriana, Zaharijević

Kultura

163

28

45

0023-5164

10.5937/kultura1963028Z

http://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%2614634&page=0&so...

2019-2021/07/05/09:30:30

The text delves into the so called anti-gender ideology. Anti-gender ideology is a global phenomenon established on a strong resistance to changes in the domain of gender, sexuality and family. Its strategies re-define the notion of subversion, demonstrating that subversion nowadays can also be very conservative.Although anti-gender ideology appears as a cultural form of resistance which regularly evokes religion, the text claims that it works primarily as a political tool, a secular as much as a religious instrument for defining the desirable society of the 21st century. The first part of the text demonstrates the paradoxical, even contradictory articulations of the claims in support of anti-gender ideology. A special emphasis is put on what becomes defined as the non-scientific character of gender, the misuse and abuse of language of gender, and its covert political aspirations which supposedly hide themselves behind the neutrality of science. In the second part of the text, the role of religion, Roman Catholic and Serbian Orthodox religions in particular, is briefly examined. In the last section, I try to demonstrate how gender allowed for an intersection of various oppositions to the rearticulations of the meanings of the right, the human, freedom and equality.