Everyone is welcome to the next seminar organised by the Centre for Health Inequalities Research at Lancaster University!
Sexual and reproductive rights at political risk:
The contemporary religious bio-agenda in Spain
Dr Mónica Cornejo, Department of Anthropology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Thursday 15thAugust 2019, 12:30-2pm
Infolab C60b/c
Together with inclusive immigration policies, sexual and reproductive rights have become a target of the attacks of the new global right wing all around the world. The repertoire of the contention is not homogeneous but there are some common discourses, actors and strategies manifesting similarly in different countries, for example the political mobilization of a particular Christian concept of “Life” by moral conservative actors, according to which, life is being attacked by Marxist feminists, LGBT+ lobbies, demographers and medical industries. When Spain approved the same-sex marriage law in 2005, the country became the scene of massive mobilizations against sexual rights under the new language of the religious bio-agenda. Since 2005, conservative activists, scholars and bishops have been pushing not only against sexual diversity and voluntary termination of pregnancy, but also against contraception, assisted reproduction technologies, euthanasia, stem cells research and family planning. Their criticism is expressing a moral conservative and religious version of Nikolas Rose’s (among others) warnings about biopolitics, eugenics and thanatopolitics. In Catholic terms: a war between the Culture of Death and the Civilization of Life is being played out, with women’s and LGBT+ people’s rights at the heart of the conflict.
Antiabortion demonstrators, Madrid 2019 Photo by Mónica Cornejo
The research seminar series “Intersectional Innovations in Applied Health Research”
are funded by the Division of Health Research
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“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
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though I belong nowhere else”
― Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues
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