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Gender – Merely a “Social Fact”? : The Construction of Neo-Authoritarian Us/Them Dichotomies

Verfasst von: Hark, Sabine info
in:
2017 , Heft: 3 , Band: 10 , 18-25 S.

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Einrichtung: GenderOpen | Digital
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Verfasst von: Hark, Sabine info
In:
Jahr: 2017
Heft: 3
Band: 10
ISSN: 2000-2955
Sprache: Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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