Abstract
During the last years, in different national contexts, emerged debates about what religious and non-religious groups call “gender ideology”. This paper tries to retrace this term’s genealogy to comprehend the political grammar in which it works. With this objective, the paper investigates texts that defined “gender ideology” around twenty years ago, maps where it emerges in Latin America and when it starts to be used against sexual and reproductive rights. Human rights’ demands have been understood by moral enterpreneurs as threats to status quo creating, at the same time, a moral panic and a discoursive field of action.
Keywords:
gender ideology; sexual and reproductive rights; Latin American politics; religion; moral enterpreneurs