THE “GENDER IDEOLOGY” GENEALOGY

Abstract

Gender studies are a relevant academic field that has changed the way we comprehend social organization, beginning to influence political struggles in the pursuit for rights. With the internationalization and increase in the organization of progressive movements demanding individual and collective freedoms, came into existence attitudes from proeminent reactionary actors in the high diplomatic spheres in the opposite sense, attempting to limit these accomplishments. Conservative and reactionary groups, seeking to restrain the mechanisms for claiming rights, opened up to radical groups inside their possibility spheres, indirectly encouraging them to advertise to the general public. Although some actions from certain actors are reasonably well documented in existing biography, gaps remain regarding the connection between claiming rights, made specially by feminist movements, and the reaction of institutions and states, in addition to gaps about how the international scenario has influenced the emergence of the expression “gender ideology”. This is what this article aims to explore, initially contextualizing the emergence, the history,  the adoptions and the transformations of the concept of gender in an academic context, while demonstrating the political influences caused by said concept, mainly by analyzing documents resulting from diplomatic meetings and events.