Fabricações de gênero na Amazônia-Brasil: estudo de caso em uma escola pública de Manaus-AM

Abstract

This article aims to find out which representations of gender, which means to be a boy or being a girl, presented by students of the first year of high school at the State Public School Márcio Nery in Manaus, seeking to fundamentally understand how it operates based social relations gender and see how these students experience gender roles. The survey was conducted through semi-structured interview, based on the screening of a short film entitled "Gender at school" in a sociology class. From the analysis of the interviews it was found that gender issues guide the social areas of student, family and school. These, as social institutions play roles to play and reiterate gender norms. Students also reproduce what is meant, culturally, to be boy or girl, resulting in unequal system which exalts those who obey the social standards and follow the construction of what is to be boy or girl and reject those who misrepresent binary male / female system or practice actions defined as not consistent with the genre it belongs to.