ABSTRACT

The role of the Vatican in the mobilization against the so-called gender ideology is structural and well established in the public arena, in Italy as in Europe. However, signs of a growing ambivalence in its attitude towards the protest have lately emerged, for example in relation to the visibility of far-right movements and aggressively right-wing parties within the movement. The paper investigates the same ambivalence among Italian Catholics groups and networks involved in the anti-gender fight. The analysis is based on 17 interviews with Catholic mothers and/or teachers who attended anti-gender conferences in 2015 and expressed their willingness to engage in school surveillance in order to prevent allegedly pro-gender activities. Results show a broad convergence towards the idea that the ‘ideology of gender’ exists and represents a serious danger for children. At the same time, interviewees express different political and cultural stances in relation to their protest. The dissimilarity detected in anti-gender narratives shed some lights on the different ways Italian Catholic activists try to oppose, manage, or solve issues related to state secularization and sexual pluralism.

摘要

梵蒂冈在动员反对所谓的性别意识形态方面的作用是结构性的，并且在公共领域已经确立，在意大利和欧洲都是如此。然而，最近出现了其对抗议的态度越来越矛盾的迹象，例如在极右运动和运动中激进的右翼政党的可见性方面。该论文调查了参与反性别斗争的意大利天主教徒团体和网络之间同样的矛盾心理。该分析基于对 2015 年参加反性别会议的天主教母亲和/或教师的 17 次采访，并表示愿意参与学校监视以防止据称的亲性别活动。结果表明，人们普遍认同“性别意识形态”存在并对儿童构成严重危险的观点。与此同时，受访者表达了与抗议有关的不同政治和文化立场。在反性别叙事中发现的不同之处揭示了意大利天主教活动家试图反对、管理或解决与国家世俗化和性多元化相关的问题的不同方式。