Escola, gênero e sexualidade: olhares que precisam se encontrar

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https://doi.org/10.17648/diversitas-journal-v6i1-1548

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ABSTRACT: The study purpose to analyze the relations between girls and boys in relation to educational practices in school environments, aiming to understand whether this institution favors the unequal production of gender and sexuality relations and the strengthening of a patriarchal culture. The theoretical contribution is based on feminist studies and a post - structuralist perspective and the methodological approach has an epistemological focus on the descriptive research of empirical data and qualitative basis. For data collection, participant observation, field record and bibliographic analysis were chosen. The field research was execute in a school in the early years of elementary education in the municipal public school in Maceió - AL, Brazil. The subjects involved were 56 children of both sexes and aged 6 to 11 years, attending the 1st to the 5th year. The results indicate that the school operates, framing these children in the patriarchal model of reference of modern western society, assigning different chores and games for girls and boys. In this orientation, girls are intuitive, higher performance in the humanities and skills to play doll and house and boys are analytical, higher performance in exact sciences and skills to play ball and play fights.

KEYWORDS: Gender, Sexuality, Patriarchal culture.

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2021-01-30

How to Cite

Ávila, D. M. V. (2021). Escola, gênero e sexualidade: olhares que precisam se encontrar. Diversitas Journal, 6(1), 926–944. https://doi.org/10.17648/diversitas-journal-v6i1-1548