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The Conservative Backlash against Gender in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2020

Flávia Biroli  and
Mariana Caminotti
Flávia Biroli
Affiliation:
Universidade de Brasília
Mariana Caminotti
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de San Martín
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Gender is central to the political disputes in Latin America today. Although conflicts concerning women and LGBTQ rights are not new, only recently have they become a dividing line in the public identities of parties, politicians, and candidates. The second decade of the 2000s brought the opposition to gender forward in the platforms of far-right movements and leaders, raising popular support as they mobilized conservative frameworks and antagonized feminist and LGBTQ activism. Their promises to protect the family from a supposed moral disorder made gender a popular category, strategically presented as an “ideology” threatening children, marriage, the natural order, and national values. Elections such as those in Brazil and Costa Rica in 2018 indicate that conflicts concerning gender and sexuality can also produce new electoral cleavages.

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Online Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 16 , Special Issue 1: Special Symposium on Women's Parties , March 2020 , E1
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2020

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