E isso é coisa de homem?: uma análise do exercício das masculinidades no campo da moda em Maceió.

Abstract

Gender as a category of analysis refers to the processes of social differentiation between the sexes, that with the vast intellectual production there is no more restricted to the male and the female, in contrast, the discussions are placed in order to enhance the debates working in perspective to break with dichotomies and binaries. In this process it can see that the sex roles have traditionally been designed as a result of a natural division of labor that assigns responsibilities that demand rational investments, physical, aesthetic and emotional differentiated for men and women. When we think in the fashion field, as a social and cultural phenomenon historically marked in the Ocident, for demand of sensitivity, creativity and refinement, distribution of specific roles in this field, often thinking about women or homosexuals. This demand is here understood as skills that are required within a field - the fashion - that characterizes it and is it required to account for such a complex and dynamic field. Through the use of methodological tools of qualitative order and based this evidence, this research assume the challenge of questioning the concept of habitus in the fashion field to realize the experience of values assigned to masculinity by heterosexual men in this field. Thus, the analyzes start from observations at Fashion Week in Alagoas (Brazil) in 2014 and supported the theoretical framework that deal with gender, masculinity, fashion and work functioning as interconnected subjects that serve to problematize the experiences of masculinity in the field of fashion in Maceio. We note that these experiences serve demarcations in the speech of the plan of action and thought, well touch and now appear as divergent.