“... THIS IS WAY OUTDATED IN TRUTH”: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THEIR GENDER CONCEPTIONS

Abstract

The article discusses the conceptions of high school students from a public school in the interior of Minas Gerais about gender relations. The discussion is based on data from a master’s degree research in education, whose objective was to build spaces for narrative production with these young people, focusing on their conceptions and ways of living and thinking about gender, sexuality and youth in a context of intense dispute discourse produced by the school program “escola sem partido”. Aspects such as work and domestic environment, notions of instinct and male and female attitudes, motherhood and fatherhood constitute the narratives making it possible to invest in a post-structuralist inspired analysis of discourses and language as producers of subjects and knowledge, which permeates the deconstruction of binary gender perspectives. The experiences of young people are therefore constituted based on the ways in which gender conceptions are negotiated in the daily lives of young people.