The Christian Discourse of “Gender Ideology”

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Abstract

This article presents a genealogy of the Christian discourse on the "gender ideology" developed in our society during the preceding years and which has influenced a number of bills in the Brazilian Congress. This discourse has been developed by Catholic intellectuals in the 1990 decade as a reaction to the initiative of feminist groups that managed to include the gender category in the documents of the United Nations social Conferences. Next, the article analyses how this Christian discourse has been spread in the political sphere and in the civil society by Catholic and Evangelical actors who reject the adoption of the gender category in public policies. In the final considerations, the challenges to be faced by feminist and LGBTT movements in the next years are reviewed.

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Author Biography

Maria das Dores Campos Machado, UFRJ

Possui graduação em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1980), mestrado em Sociologia pela Sociedade Brasileira de Instrução - SBI/IUPERJ (1989) e doutorado em Sociologia pela Sociedade Brasileira de Instrução - SBI/IUPERJ (1994). Realizou Pós-doutorado na PUC/SP entre 08/2011 e 07/2012, bem como no Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Buenos Aires em 2005. Atualmente é Professora Associada Nível 4 da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Pesquisadora 1c do CNPq. Tem experiência na área de Sociologia, com ênfase em Sociologia da Religião, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: pentecostalismo, evangélicos, sociedade, política e gênero.

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Published

2018-08-13

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Machado, M. das D. C. (2018). The Christian Discourse of “Gender Ideology”. Revista Estudos Feministas, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

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Vol. 26 No. 2 (2018)

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