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- Title
GENDER -- MERELY A "SOCIAL FACT"? THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEO-AUTHORITARIAN US/THEM DICHOTOMIES.
- Authors
Hark, Sabine
- Abstract
That gender cannot be reduced to an ahistorical fact is a widely researched insight of multidisciplinary gender studies. In theory as well as in political practice gender is thus generally understood as a post-essentialist, reflexive, and contingent concept. Against this backdrop the essay asks for the German context in what way and with which intentions, neo-authoritarian discourses and movements explicitly not only reject, attack and defame gender as concept, but also reclaim it. I will argue that under the cipher 'anti-genderism', a discourse has been formed that can first be described as a neo-fundamentalist discourse and that is secondly explicitly used to construct racist, neo-authoritarian us/them-dichotomies. The so called anti-gender forces become thus identifiable as the element of a dispositif, which is at the core and subject to further clarification of anti-democratic nature.
- Subjects
AUTHORITARIANISM; GENDER studies; INTERDISCIPLINARY research
- Publication
Baltic Worlds, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 3, p18
- ISSN
2000-2955
- Publication type
Article