MULHER E AS ANGÚSTIAS DO COTIDIANO

a versão de meninas e meninos na favela

Abstract

This paper discusses how boys and girls, students in an urban school placed in a poor neighborhood – favelas –, understand and perceive women lives in their community. Specifically, it intends to understanding how girls criticize and reject the discriminatory, oppressive and violent conditions under which their mothers and other women live in that community, and how they resist to accepting the idea that in the future they will be living the same experience. Otherwise, the boys also recognize the gender inequalities and are very concerned about their mothers’ bad life conditions, although they think that the different roles between women and men in the family and society are natural. Thus, they reproduce traditional and patriarchal values in their gender relationships with girls. This work also analyzes economic, cultural, and political aspects of these boys and girls’ lives in order to understanding their perceptions about women. Finally, this article discusses the gender, race and class relations established in the multiple environments where these students live, such as school, home, and neighborhood.