ABSTRACT
Based on a cartography of actors and political actions of the offensive against gender in Brazil, we analyze how the accusatory category “gender ideology” has been transported to the state grammar with effects on educational policies. This translation strategy is not specific to Brazil, but propagated transnationally through the circulation of “successful models of public policy”. In these models, the phantasm of gender as a threat–an unequivocal element of the de-democratization processes underway in the 21st century–is concealed under the widely consecrated vocabulary of “child protection” and “family bonds”.
Keywords
Anti-gender politics; Education; Transnationalization