Pensando gênero, sexualidade e juventude em tempos de “escola sem partido”

Abstract

This thesis has presented as our research object the narratives of young high school students about their knowledge and experiences of gender, sexuality and youth. Having as initial field a state public school in the city of Juiz de Fora (MG), I became interested in the juvenile narratives, facing a social and political context of dissemination of the program school without party (ESP). Thus, I formulated the following research question: what conceptions about gender relations and sexualities circulate among young high school students, in a scenario of dissemination of the school without party? I have sought to work with the categories gender, sexuality and youth, stressing them in different contexts. The methodological tool used was the narrative-interviews, with the purpose of placing centrality in the experiences, knowledge and experiences of the students. I use ways of seeing and thinking of the post-structuralist perspectives, bringing theoretical-methodological perspectives that propose to the problematization and the denaturalization to think the categories chosen in the research. In this way, I investigate, from the juvenile narratives, the public narratives of ESP, considering the relations that are established between ESP's argumentative field and relations of gender, sexuality and youth. Some of the elements of analysis and discussion in this research are the identity markers for youths; the interweaving between sex, body, gender and sexuality; some social cuts between class, race, family and other social instances; and the possible and desirable spaces for the knowledge of gender and sexuality in school.