BURNING IN THE 21st CENTURY

Text topic: cultures of resistance

Text author: Адриана Захаријевић

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.