“Gender equality in this establishment is prohibited”: political speeches about the approval of the “Gender Ideology Law” in Santa Rita, Patos and Campina Grande – Paraíba (2017-2018)

• Autor(a) principal: Arruda, Guilherme de Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Soares Junior, Azemar dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Educação & Formação (Fortaleza)
• DOI: 10.25053/redufor.v6i2.4189
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/redufor/article/view/4189
• topic: Ideologia de Gênero; Gênero; Educação; Ideologia de Gênero; Gender ideology; Genre; Education; Ideología de género. Género. Educación

This article aims to analyze the speeches of parliamentarians who proposed the so-called “Law of Gender Ideology” in the municipalities of Santa Rita, Patos and Campina Grande in the state of Paraíba. These laws were proposed and approved based on the Christian ideological foundation, with the purpose of prohibiting the debate of gender in public and private schools of the referred municipalities. Methodologically, we used the proposal of discourse analysis from Michel Foucault (2014) which aims to perceive discursive production as an exercise in reading, interpreting and producing another / new discourse. For this, we look at the interviews made with the three parliamentarians in order to understand their interests and “ideologies” defended. Ideology, gender and education are fundamental categories for the theoretical dialogue in this text. Therefore, it is concluded that the so-called “Law of Gender Ideology” functioned as a prohibitive and punitive device, but that it also generated resistance.