Introduction: Gender Panics in the Global South

Cole, Jennifer; Moore, Erin V.

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“…As most observers would agree, Uganda's sex education debates reflect the strong influence of the religious right, which has driven ostensibly local objections to progressive gender and sexuality politics all over the world. Particularly in the global south, concepts such as feminism and LGBT rights have been framed as imports and impositions from the west-as "Ebola from Brussels," referring to the seat of the European Union (Korolczuk & Graff, 2018), or "That Beijing Thing," referring to the UN's 1995 World Conference on Women (Ssewakiryanga, 2002; see also Cole & Moore, 2020). This rhetoric has been traced to such well-resourced metropoles as Colorado Springs, home to Focus on the Family, a key opponent of comprehensive sexuality education, and the Vatican (Butler, 2004;Case, 2016).…”

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Debating Sex and Sovereignty: Uganda’s New National Sexuality Education Policy

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Introduction This article examines recent moral panics over sex education in Uganda from historical perspectives. Public outcry over comprehensive sexuality education erupted in 2016 over claims that children were being taught “homosexuality” by international NGOs. Subsequent debates over sex education revolved around defending what public figures claimed were national, religious, and cultural values from foreign infiltration. Methods This paper is grounded in a survey of Uganda’s two English-print national newspapers (2016–2018), archival research of newspapers held at Uganda’s Vision Group media company (1985–2005), analyses of public rhetoric as reported in internationally and nationally circulating media, textual analysis of Uganda’s National Sexuality Education Framework (2018), formal interviews with Ugandan NGO officers (3), and semi-structured interviews with Ugandan educators (3). Results Uganda’s current panic over sex education reignited longstanding anxieties over foreign interventions into the sexual health and rights of Ugandans. We argue that in the wake of a 35-year battle with HIV/AIDS and more recent controversies over LGBT rights, both of which brought international donor resources and governance, the issue of where and how to teach young people about sex became a new battleground over the state’s authority to govern the health and economic prosperity of its citizens. Conclusions Ethno- and religio-nationalist rhetoric used to oppose the state’s new sexuality education policy was also used to justify sex education as a tool for economic development. Policy Implications Analyzing rhetoric mobilized by both supporters and detractors of sex education reveals the contested political terrain policy advocates must navigate in Uganda and other postcolonial contexts.

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“…Feminist anthropology is well suited for this task. It has identified various ways the ongoing deployment of gendered difference reenforces social structure, such that crises in social reproduction are often cast as the fault of women as well as of sexually and racially marginalized people (Bhattacharya 2017; Cole and Moore 2020; Freeman 2001). Fieldwork can uncover the microphysics of power through which backlash works.…”

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Backlash

Sosa

2022

Feminist Anthropology

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Feminist anthropology offers conceptual and methodological clarity to the study of backlash, a phenomenon made salient once more by the global conservative turn of the 2010s. As contemporary crises of social reproduction have, once again, focused majoritarian angst and anger on women, queer people, immigrants, and people of color, scholars have returned (again) to discuss backlash. Critically, feminist anthropology can move past media narratives of backlash, which often emphasize the emotional habits of backlash perpetrators, to understand how backlash operates as a specific mode of power through the experiences of its targets. This keyword entry joins recent retheorizations in conceiving backlash not as a reactive event but rather as an elaboration of the ongoing logics of structural oppression. Critically examining media and scholarly analyses of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's election and rise of the extreme right in Brazil as its case study, this entry examines how fieldwork‐based approaches offer expanded theoretical purchase on the backlash concept.

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Is the Transnational Female? Revisiting the Gender Metaphors of Global Connection

Moore

2022

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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Debating Sex and Sovereignty: Uganda’s New National Sexuality Education Policy

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