Non au gender: Moral epistemics and French conservative strategies of distinction

dc.contributor.authorGeva, Dorit
dc.contributor.unitDepartment of Sociology and Social Anthropology
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-16T14:43:16Z
dc.date.available2023-06-16T14:43:16Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractCatholic bourgeois contestations against ‘le gender’, and against ‘bourgeoisbohemians’, characterised ‘La Manif Pour Tous’ and ‘Les Veilleurs’, French social movements which mobilised intensely in 2013 against legalisation of same-sex marriage. Drawing from primary field observations of movement events, and from interviews, I argue that moral epistemics – knowledge politics oriented around moral issues – were central to the movements. Additionally, these moral epistemics were structured by the class positioning of conservative bourgeois Catholics. I trace how contestations against ‘le gender’ were framed as critiques of how moral knowledge is produced and irresponsibly disseminated by rival bourgeois actors, and how conservative activists contrasted themselves as educated and thoughtful subjects whose ideas emerged autonomously and outside the Church hierarchy. Studies of conservatism should thus not only analyse the theological content of religiously-grounded conservative movements, but should also examine how conservatives criticise the circuits of knowledge-production and dissemination of relationally antagonistic groups.
dc.description.versionPublished version
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23254823.2019.1660196
dc.identifier.issn2325-4823, 2325-4815
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13880
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23254823.2019.1660196
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source.epage420
dc.source.issue4
dc.source.journalabbrevEuropean Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
dc.source.journaltitleEuropean Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
dc.source.spage393
dc.source.volume6
dc.titleNon au gender: Moral epistemics and French conservative strategies of distinction
dc.typeJournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
refterms.dateFOA2023-06-16T14:43:16Z
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