Sexual rights, religion and post-neoliberalism in Argentina (2003-2015)

JONES, DANIEL; ARIZA, LUCÍA; PECHENY, MARIO

Religion & Gender

International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender

Año: 2018

This paper examines the relation between sexual politics and post-neoliberalism/populism in Kirchners? Argentina between 2003 and 2015, focusing on the role of religious actors. Despite the opposition of religious leaders, including that of Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis), Argentina advanced in the recognition of gender and sexual rights during the Kirchners? administrations. Conflicts around gender and sexuality explain some of the tensions between political and religious actors in the period. The focus on sexual politics and its relation to religious actors shows that the Kirchners? administrations had a strong liberal component, unlike other traditional populist or post-neoliberal administrations. And that liberal component explains the tensions between that populist government and conservative religious actors.