O mito de Adão e Eva revisitado: acerca do masculino e do feminino na cultura da nação

The western nacionalism around the turning of nineteenth to twentieth century, intersects gender and progeny reproduction, manifested through the population policies implemented by the nations in order to settle the countries ethnicities. on the man's side, the masculinity idea was basicto the nacionalism ideology taking wide investiments in the people virilization; on the other side, the woman would be in charge of the nation's ethinic line, generating children brought up a menbers of an ethinic group. The text discusses this question through the “spiritualizes” discourse of Plínio Salgado, leader of the brazilian integralism, movement that was founded on the belief that only the restoration of the Christian values would take the brazilian society out of its “state of decadence”