INSTITUTIONS AND GENDER
A THEORETICAL REVIEW OF FEMINIST INSTITUTIONALISM FOR BRAZIL
Keywords:
Gender, Feminist Institutionalism, InstitutionsAbstract
The aim of this article is to discuss Feminist Institutionalism within the context of international Political Science, arguing for the necessity to implement this theoretical approach more frequently in our national research. This implementation would solidify gender studies within Brazilian institutionalism. Brazilian Political Science is largely consumed by institutionalist analysis. This is due to the strong influence of the American tradition in our education, more specifically the neo-institutionalist response to the behavioralist turn in the 1960s and the adoption of Rational Choice Institutionalism, Historical Institutionalism, and Sociological Institutionalism as important theoretical tools to unravel the implications that the return to democracy would bring to the national scenario. However, as was the case in the United States in the last century, gender has also been erased as a key factor in institutional analyses here. The belief that institutions are asexual bodies, instructed within sexual neutrality, incapacitates a deeper view of the inequalities operating internally. For this purpose, various authors in the American tradition are juxtaposed here to construct the theoretical foundations of Feminist Institutionalism and enable a new era of institutional studies.
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