Nas tramas do nhanduti: tecendo a igualdade de gênero num Instituto Federal de Fronteira.

Abstract

This article analyzes the texts produced in the context of a vocational-technical high school, on the occasion of students‟ participation in a national essay contest focused on the theme of gender equality. Such texts comprise the final product of a workshop specially designed for students to engage in this writing process. Here, the objective is to understand how their essays demonstrate an appropriation of a discourse that supports gender equality and the combat of violence against women. As a qualitative document analysis, the review of the texts was informed by the literature on multiliteracies and gender theory. The results obtained point to a problematization of the silencing over, and naturalization of, the violence suffered by women, which contributes to the blaming of the victim when such episodes occur. They also evidence aspects of students‟ local interculturality and the deconstruction of gender stereotypes.