Who is afraid of gender and sexuality in Latin America? The ideology of genesis of movements Con Mis Hijos No Te Metas and Escola Sem Partido

Abstract

In this article, we analyze discourses from the Latin movements Con Mis Hijos No Te Metas (CMHNTM) and Escola Sem Partido (ESP), which claim to exclude the debate on gender and sexuality in education, in order to identify the fight against the supposed “ideology of gender". In general, as we pointed out in the text, one of the arguments that support this perspective is based on what is called the “genesis ideology”, linked to a “device of cis-heteronorm”. We will notice during the course of the text how certain religious conceptions underlie such discourses in a polarized, Manichean, and binarizing way. For this, we use as documentary sources some narratives of these movements collected from the internet, as well as we investigate specialized bibliography on these subjects. In particular, we will seek to dialogue with the concept of the device of sexuality, as well as two of the great narrative strategies on sexuality contemplated by Foucault, which are: the socialization of procreation behaviors and the hysterization of the woman's body, relating to control over bodies, the social function of sex, and, in particular, control over women's bodies. We consider that the two movements represent confront themselves with the perspective of a plural, critical, libertarian, democratic, inclusive, and emancipatory education, which justifies the importance of this article.