"Entre razões e emoções": uma análise da masculinidade no universo Emo

Abstract

Emo emerges as the promoter of a new possibility of male identity, through a movement characterized by its permissive character when it comes to issues related to gender and emotional expressions. This work seeks, through a bibliographical analysis, to understand how emo was constituted as a youth culture in Brazil, how the movement fits as a counterculture movement which seeks to challenge socially established paradigms, and how aesthetics and behavior of the young male emo contributed to a subversion of the standards regarding the hegemonic ideals of masculinity. To this end, it is important to create a theoretical basis that covers different areas of knowledge necessary for a better understanding and analysis of the subject. For such, the studies of theorists who research youth, fashion, gender and its performances, sociology, and the field of anthropology of emotions were applied in order to be able to create a study that explores emo as a movement that questions masculinity through aesthetics, in addition to seeking to understand the fundamentals as that led people who identify with the male sex to adopt an image considered subversive to themselves.