Worse than communism? Discursive anti-gender mobilizations in Lithuania
LTStraipsnyje nagrinėjama Lietuvoje paplitusi diskursinė „anti-gender“ mobilizacijos strategija, kurios pagrindinis elementas yra palyginti lyčių lygybės politiką bei terminą „gender“ su komunizmu. Tyrimo klausimas: kaip Lietuvoje yra kuriama analogija tarp termino „gender“ ir valstybinio socializmo politikos, kuri buvo taikoma šioje šalyje? Kodėl toks palyginimas yra sėkminga „anti-gender“ mobilizacijos strategija? Straipsnis remiasi pasirinktais tekstais, kurie tiesiogiai adresuoja terminą „gender“ kaip komunizmą. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Antigenderizmas; Diskursas; Gender; Komunizmas; Lytis; Anti-genderism; Communism; Discourse; Gender.
ENWithout doubt, anti-gender struggles in Lithuania are an essential part of a broader transnational tendency to promote tradition and religion over equality, to discredit the European Union as a place of moral decline, to criticize gender studies as an academic discipline etc. However, some aspects of anti-gender mobilization in this state are locally embedded and historically determined. The aim of this article is to analyze patterns of argumentation and implicit assumptions on the term gender as a conceptual analogy of Communism. Hence, the the focus of this paper is on the following questions: how is the analogy between genderism and Communism constructed in the public discourse in Lithuania? Why is this comparison a successful strategy of anti-gender mobilization? The analysis is based on an intensive reading and an interpretation of selected texts that explicitly tackle the analogy between gender equality policies and Communism. [From the publication]
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