Normatização e engendramento na escola : uma leitura do filme: Straightlaced (2009)

Abstract

In this work, I propose an analysis of the documentary Straightlaced (2009), grounded in a feminist approach and in studies on men and masculinities. My intention is to observe how the construction of gender at school is showed and problematized in this film. For this task, I discuss important feminist issues through a reading of scenes where high-school teenagers are interviewed. My aim is studying some nodal questions on gender and masculinities, such as the relation between hegemonic masculinity and compulsory heterosexuality, the dialectic between power and speech and, specially, the association between normalization and construction of subjectivities. I believe this work may contribute to gender and cultural studies and to feminism, by presenting an important theoretical debate and one more contribution about gender relations at school, presented by artistic language. In addition, I believe the analysis of this documentary may be enriching to the pedagogic work, by presenting a good material to be used in class – mostly because the emergency of the studies on gender and masculinities in Brazil and the absence of a Portuguese version of the movie.