Banca de DEFESA: ELDER LUAN DOS SANTOS SILVA

GENDER THREATENED: THE IMPACT OF ANTI-GENDER OFFENSIVES IN POLITICS BRAZILIAN EDUCATIONAL

Gender Ideology; Gender; Anti-Gender Movements; Neoconservatism

This research was carried out in the Postgraduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies on Gender, Women and Feminism, in the research line Gender, Alterity(ies) and Inequalities, and sought to understand how anti-gender offensives have impacted Brazilian educational policy and the inclusion of debates on gender and sexuality in educatioN. The research sought to contextualize the origin of anti-gender offensives and the production and dissemination of the Gender Ideology discourse in Brazil; to investigate the impacts of the anti-gender agenda in restricting discussions on gender and sexuality at school; to identify transnational similarities and differences in anti-gender offensives in Brazil based on the French case; and to understand how the disputes promoted around the notion of gender ideology have potentiated and authorized gender violence and LGBTphobia, and curtailed the rights of women and LGBT+ people. As a methodological resource, I work with the analytical perspective of ethno-research, in a process that involves immersion, inquiry, saturation, reduction, filtering and interpretation for understanding. The investigative procedure was carried out by mapping reactions to the Brasil Sem Homofobia (Brazil Without Homophobia) program, the Gender and Sexuality at School course, and the Escola Sem Homofobia (School Without Homophobia) program, government initiatives to promote gender and sexuality diversity; identifying the discourses on the incorporation of gender and sexuality issues into the National Education Plan and the National Common Curricular Base based on the actions of the School Without a Party Movement; and finally, analyzing the discourses and proposals for anti-gender bills available in the Speeches and Shorthand Notes Database and the Senate and Chamber of Deputies Bills and Other Proposals Database. In this thesis, we found that the main interference operated by neoconservative movements in educational policies took place in the National Congress, with a strong presence of neo-Pentecostal parliamentarians, articulated via the Evangelical Parliamentary Front. The study indicates that the anti-gender offensive in Brazil, in addition to preventing Brazilian educational policy from including mentions and/or programs that encourage the promotion of respect for sexual and gender diversity, has produced and accentuated violence.