Abstract Based on thematic analysis of 40 semi-directive interviews, observation in Port-au-Prince and Brasilia and following a standpoint feminist and international political sociology approach, the article aims to explore gender representations among Brazilian peacekeepers. Using the Brazilian experience in Haiti as a case study, the article seeks to show how the UNSC agenda on Women, Peace and Security is appropriated by actors on the field. It argues that peacekeepers seek to reduce dissonance between the existing military understanding of gender and UN expectations. UN “gender mainstreaming” is reinterpreted to accommodate naturalizing and traditional discourses on not only women, but also men.

O artigo reúne e discute as abordagens feministas para as Relações Internacionais. O encontro entre os campos dos Estudos de Gênero e Relações Internacionais data de pouco mais de duas décadas, e representa um movimento simultâneo ao do surgimento do chamado "terceiro debate" em RI. Dessa forma, pretende-se, além de discutir a aplicação do gênero como categoria de análise para as relações internacionais, argumentar que essa aplicação está intimamente ligada às críticas às teorias convencionais de RI que surgem no contexto do terceiro debate.

The article collects and discusses feminist approaches to International Relations. The encounter between the fields of Gender Studies and International Relations dates back to a little over two decades, and represents a movement that was almost simultaneous to the beginning of what is called in the IR field the "third debate". In this sense, besides discussing the use of gender as a category of analysis for international relations, the article intends to argue that this use of gender in IR is closely connected to the critics to conventional IR theories that emerge in the context of the third debate.