Winning in the Parliament, losing in the Courts - Catholic biopolitics in different venues: the case of Italy
The catholic bio-politics, in recent years, addressed a variety of issues. In this contribution I focus specifically on assisted reproduction and stem cell research in order to analyse the Catholic neo-feminist discourse, and the complex interplay of discursive arenas. Namely, I focus the attention...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Imprensa Metodista
[2016]
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Estudos de religião
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 11-27 |
| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KBJ Italy KDB Roman Catholic Church NCF Sexual ethics NCH Medical ethics XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
Feminism
B Catholic bio-politics |
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| Summary: | The catholic bio-politics, in recent years, addressed a variety of issues. In this contribution I focus specifically on assisted reproduction and stem cell research in order to analyse the Catholic neo-feminist discourse, and the complex interplay of discursive arenas. Namely, I focus the attention on the reconfiguration of religious discourse in terms of attention to feminism and gender rights, on the one side, and discursive opportunity structures in terms of venues opportunities and constraints on the other. The analysis underlined two main elements. First of all, in relation to the process of judicialization of politics, the analysis pointed out the different opportunities and constraints characterizing the different venues. Namely, judicialization of politics and venue shopping are not favourable the same way for all the actors. Second, a neo-conservative frame of revolutionary maternity gained large room in the Italian political sphere, and it is likely to gain even more resonance in light of the current debate on surrogacy, related to the never-ending discussion on the forms of regulation of same-sex couples in Italy. |
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| ISSN: | 2176-1078 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Estudos de religião
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15603/2176-1078/er.v30n1p11-27 |