Pedagogias das masculinidades: perspectivas de gênero, sexualidade e emoções entre adolescentes estudantes do ensino médio

Abstract

Through the observation of daily situations in a public school located in the suburb of Juiz de Fora, MG, from debates with students from high school about gender and sexuality and with semi-structured interviews with students professors and the word staff, these thesis analyzes the regulatory devices of gender with emphasis on masculinity that act in the production of the teenager subjectivities. In other words, this thesis aims to identify which are those and how operate the gender and sexuality expectations related to girls and boys behavior’s, observing how those expectations contribute to the naturalization and production of inequality, but potentially to its destruction and denaturalization. With this perspective as the main finality, four specific objectives were selected: (1) To understand the actual political conjecture related to the themes about gender and sexuality inside education and its potential influence on the daily basis at school and the perception of the school agents. (2) To analyze how the imaginary about emotions that surrounds the daily basis at school contributes to the production, reproduction or contestation of hegemonic representations of gender. (3) To identify how and which masculinities are produced between the students as hegemonic and suburban. (4) To analyze the experiences and the journey of the students who contrast with the hegemonic rules of gender. The report indicates how much the school agents, besides feeling unprepared to deal with the gender and sexuality issue, for many times they feel afraid and prefer to avoid the subject. It is possible to point the presence of the representations of what morally is considered being a “man” and a “woman” still, anchored on emotional speeches that reinforces the hierarchy between genders. Though the presence of multiple masculinities is highlighted, it is verified a hegemonic model of “being a man” conceived by characteristics as “strength”, "aggressiveness", "competitiveness " produced by soccer, the social game of the non-conventional relations and reports of sexual experiences and sexist conversations. Simultaneously, is possible to identify as well the boy's experiences that don't correspond to the necessary attributes to the execution of a hegemonic masculinity, the existence of suburban masculinity. Considering the existence of multiple ways where the rules live, the research demonstrates strategies developed by the students to improve the acceptance and integration in the school environment.