Centre for Women's Studies, Santiago de Chile.
Third World Q. 2010;31(6):971-88. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2010.502730.
This article explores the influence of religious actors on the elaboration of two public policies that are key to the advancement of women's rights and have long formed part of the women's movement's agenda in Chile: the introduction of sexual education in secondary schools in the 1990s and the distribution of emergency contraception in the 2000s. Our analysis of how different actors-from a variety of ideological and power positions-have influenced the two policy debates suggests that their discourses and strategies are highly contingent on the political environment. While conservative religious forces retain an enormous capacity to hinder policy making and implementation in the arena of family and sexuality, the government's determination to confront such interference seems to have grown in a context of fewer authoritarian enclaves, a more pluralist society and a strong sexual and reproductive rights movement. The diversification of religious positions on issues of family and sexuality has also affected the room for manoeuvre in the policy arena.
本文探讨了宗教行为体对两项公共政策制定的影响，这两项政策对于推进妇女权利至关重要，并且长期以来一直是智利妇女运动议程的一部分：20 世纪 90 年代在中学引入性教育，以及 21 世纪初分发紧急避孕药。我们分析了来自不同意识形态和权力立场的不同行为体如何影响这两项政策辩论，结果表明，他们的论述和策略在很大程度上取决于政治环境。虽然保守的宗教势力在家庭和性领域仍然拥有巨大的能力来阻碍政策制定和执行，但政府在面对这种干涉时的决心似乎在一个权威飞地较少、社会更加多元化以及强大的性权利和生殖权利运动的背景下有所增强。宗教界在家庭和性问题上立场的多样化也影响了政策领域的回旋余地。
