Assistant Professor at Women and Family Research Institute
Abstract
Social historical studies considering family institution in the contemporary era reveal that one of the most important aspects of evolution in the family domain has been related to gender as a key word. Based on these studies and researches related to the conceptual history of the field of gender over six decades, two stages with two different semantic categories can be identified for this keyword. In the first stage, although the traditional family faced serious challenges, its spirit as a heterosexual relationship was not seriously criticized. The first part of the semantic package of gender included the negation of natural differences, the construction of gender and the meaninglessness of the role/gender relationship, which transformed the family institution during the sixties to the nineties by declining family power through a transformation in gender roles, a change in the family's power structure, and strengthening the perceptions considering its legal rights. In the second part, the minimal concept of biological sex was distorted, which challenged the natural family by emphasizing heterosexuality. This analysis indicates the point that gender is not a word but a theory that has principles and a meaning system in its center and has included all these adverse effects in the evolution of the family in a global scale. This article aims to show the evolution of gender from a word to a theory in the form of expressing its fundamental effects in the destruction of the family foundation. These effects include the evolution of sexuality as a new phenomenon, the consequences of multiple sexual relations on women, abortion, and evolution in the literature considering same-sex attraction, the creation and intensification of the intelligent confrontation against family-oriented as well as religious currents in the world. Applying the library method, this study aims to explain gender as a theory by referring to the level of its effects and by defining the effects of this theory on family institution in a global scale.
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