Gender and its Stories

Abstract

The following work deals with several issues concerning gender. Firstly, it examines several anthropologic and historical dynamics concerning the establishment and legitimacy of male power, in opposition to the subordination of everything that concerns the female domain and the existence of women. In detail, it focuses on learning processes and the enhancement of the bipartition of gender in the family, in school and in different means of communication. The birth of gender studies will be described as an original field of study in various areas of human knowledge and how this has allowed for the diffusion of social and cultural awareness based on objective data. Lastly, we will consider the reasons that have led to the birth of gender theories on behalf of fundamentalist American and European groups, who then launched an international campaign: the religious and ideological suppositions, methods, strategies and aims of these campaigns against the presumed dominion of gender theory will be described. Future developments of these movements will be outlined, together with their strategies.