This dissertation seeks to apprehend the Brazilian identity discursively constructed and projected during the government of Jair Bolsonaro (2018-2022). In the context in which the family became the guide and anchor of Brazil s behavior in the international arena, we depart from the feminist literature in International Relations, recapturing the relations between the nation-state and gender, to use its theoretical framework combined with the emerging literature on the contemporary anti-gender mobilizations to explore the transnational rise of far-right governments and the transposition of gender ideology into state grammar. This thesis argues that Bolsonaro s foreign policy, while making use of the discursive construction of the Brazilian national identity to justify its actions, also constituted it in this process, with the family being a key element in this process, following the post-structuralist foreign policy literature. In order to do this, it analyzes the foreign policy discourse of certain Brazilian government actors in the period from 2019 to 2022, aiming to verify how the construction of the Brazilian identity is related to the foreign policy that follows and which Brazilian identity is constructed in this articulation. This research effort allows us to make sense of both the specificities of the Brazilian scenario that led to the presidency of an ultraconservative and authoritarian government that actively worked to address important questions about gender and sexuality, as well as to reflect on the gendered, sexualized and familiarized dynamics of construction of the Brazilian nation-state that influence the understanding of who Brazil is.