Foreign Policy in the Bolsonaro Government (2019-2021): Discursive Disputes and Institutional Ruptures in Gender Policies

Abstract

This article investigates Brazilian Foreign Policy (PEB) concerning gender policies in the early years of the Bolsonaro government. It reviews the conceptual frame-works of PEB and gender from feminist epistemologies. It employs Bardin’s (1977) proposed Content Analysis (CA) method to analyze an unstructured corpus of 65 official speeches. The findings suggest significant institutional ruptures within the “new PEB” between 2019 and 2021. The fight against “gender ideology” marks the neoconservative repositioning of Brazil on domestic and international fronts – particularly regarding gender, sexuality, and human rights policies.