Thrilled to report that Annie Wilkinson’s piece for AQA, “Latin America’s Gender Ideology Explosion,” is now live on Anthropology News!  As Wilkinson writes:

“What’s been called part of the ‘global war’ to destroy marriage, ‘your latest right-wing conspiracy,’ and the driving idea behind the ‘anti-LGBT backlash in Latin America,’ but ‘doesn’t really exist’? Gender ideology. While it would be nice to report that the phrase is merely a malapropism, it is a very deliberate concept spawned by conservative religious groups. ‘Gender ideology’ is becoming the catch-all metonym of a growing global movement opposing gender equality, abortion, same-sex marriage and adoption, comprehensive sexuality education, and transgender rights….” 

Read more at: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/03/21/latin-americas-gender-ideology-explosion/