Relações de Gênero no Espaço Acadêmico: um estudo a partir das narrativas experienciadas por alunas dos cursos da pós-graduação de Ciências Sociais, Engenharia Civil e Ambiental da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande/PB.

Abstract

Both masculinity and femininity are social constructions. Regarding the biological sex, cultural demands are created that define roles related to the male and female gender, as well as the power relations between them. In this work, we aim to study gender relations at the university, based on the analysis of narratives by students of postgraduate courses in Social Sciences and Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Campina Grande. The theoretical perspective adopted is a confluence of studies on gender relations, representations of masculinity and femininity in higher education, highlighting the contributions of Foucault, Scott, Butler and Bourdieu. The research had a qualitative character, with a methodology that consisted of carrying out semi-structured interviews with an intentional sample composed of eight female students of the aforementioned postgraduate courses, selected by their availability to participate in the research. Among the main conclusions reached, we highlight the following: (1) the academic space of the analyzed courses is crossed by asymmetric gender relations and male domination; (2) the manifestations of misogyny, machismo and discrimination against women in the focused courses happen in terms of verticality, from teachers to students; and also in terms of horizontality, in the interactions between the student and the students, and between the students, who sometimes reproduce the culture and sexist/sexist practices; and (3) the narratives of the interviewees, as well as of UFCG students who made complaints about gender discrimination, point to an institutional environment that is generally complacent with events of moral harassment, sexism and gender violence.