“I was motivated to write this comment after reading a series of analyses that re-visit the conditions in which a transnational agenda of repudiation of “gender” took shape, in the 1990s (Butler, 2004; Case, 2017; Garbagnolli, 2017; Mikolsci and Campana, 2017: 723-745; Kuhar and Patternote, 2017; Viveros, 2017: 220-241). I should say I have examined this trajectory on previous occasions (Corrêa, Petchesky and Parker, 2008; Corrêa, 2009). What follows is fundamentally based on these earlier writings, on the analysis developed by Girard (2007) but also on my personal memories. I had the privilege, so to speak, to closely follow several of the 1990s debates in which anti-gender politics – which now sweeps over the Americas, Europe but also Africa — gradually took form. These occasions were the Rio de Janeiro Conference on Environment and Development (1992), the Cairo Conference on Population and Development (ICPD, 1994), the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (IV WSSD, 1995) and the ICPD and Fourth WCW +5 and + 10 Reviews (1999, 2000, 2004 and the UN Summit on Development Goals of 2005.”
