A Step Back and to the Right: Gendered Backlash, Partisanship, and Cynicism in Brazil’s Recent Reactionary Turn

This essay reviews the following works: Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil: The Rise and Fall of President Dilma Rousseff. By Pedro A. G. dos Santos and Farida Jalalzai. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2021. Pp. 213. $91.05 hardcover. ISBN: 9781439916179. A Horizon of (Im)possibilities: A Chronicle of Brazil’s Conservative Turn. Edited by Katerina Hatzikidi and Eduardo Dullo. London: University of London Press, 2021. Pp. 195. $35.00 paperback. IBSN: 9781908857897. Cynical Citizenship: Gender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil. By Benjamin Junge. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 304. $64.70 hardcover. ISBN: 9780826359445. Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil. Edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrín, and Lucia Cantero. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Pp. 238. $39.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781978825659. O Brasil dobrou à direita: Uma radiografia da eleição de Bolsonaro em 2018. By Jairo Nicolau. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2019. Pp. 144. $23.04 paperback. ISBN: 9788537818886. Dilma’s Downfall: The Impeachment of Brazil’s First Woman President and the Pathway to Power for Jair Bolsonaro’s Far-Right. By Peter Prengaman and Mauricio Savarese. New York: Associated Press. Pp. 274. $14.52 paper. ISBN: 9781735845999. Gender and Representation in Latin America. Edited by Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 352. $38.95 paper. ISBN: 9780190851231. Democracy against Parties: The Divergent Fates of Latin America’s New Left Contenders. By Brandon Van Dyck. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 288. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780822946946.