We analyze the centrality of gender and sexuality in the advancement of political agendas of conservative rights and religious groups that have united around opposition to what they call “gender ideology”, as a response to the advance of feminist and LGBTQ+ struggles both internationally and in Chile. We address how the discourses and practices of the anti-gender agenda have been articulated and enhanced in recent years in Chile, examining their central and recurring argumentative logic, in addition to their political practices, accounting for the strategic and flexible uses of the association between religion, heteropatriarchy, and politics. We analyze the conceptual emergence of the anti-gender ideology rhetoric both international and locally, in order to analyze its deployment in the recent history of Chile: in the parliamentary discussion of the Civil Union Agreement and its subsequent extension in the religious fields, politics, media and education. By way of closure, key areas are emphasized to resist this conservative anti-gender agenda from an intersectional feminist perspective.
Stutzin, V., & Troncoso, L. (2020). The heteropatriarchal agenda in Chile: Crossings between politics, moral and religion in the fight against "gender ideology". Nomadías, (28), 9–41. Retrieved from https://revistaeggp.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/57451
