ABSTRACT

This chapter analyses the modulations of the right-wing in regard to feminism. In order to reconstruct the meanings of the right-wing discourse and the transformations over time, four periods with different argumentative cores are distinguished. In the first stage, the right-wing is identified with the Catholic discourse on sexuality. In the second period, in response to the advance of the denaturalisation and politicisation of sexuality, it emerges a phase of resistance and reaction from a conservative side based on tradition and family. In the following stage, the secular and democratising discourses on sexuality, consolidated with the sanctioning of the Egalitarian Marriage Law (2010), give rise to a new emerging right-wing with discursive ambivalence. In 2015, the emergence of the Ni Una Menos movement, the arrival of Mauricio Macri and the Cambiemos coalition to the presidency and the parliamentary debate on abortion (2018) are a turning point for the configuration of a new far-right. Finally, the fourth period combines secular and religious nuances based on the natural sexual order and the rejection of feminism, which is seen as a Marxist trench that promotes gender ideology.