Beyond dichotomic representations of gender and sexuality: figurations on the borders of religion in Northern Brazil

Authors

  • Benedito Medrado Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Grupo Feminista de Investigación en Género y Masculinidades Instituto PAPAI Red MenEngage Brasil Red Internacional de Estudios sobre Masculinidades

Keywords:

gender, sexuality, masculinities, figurations, aesthetics

Abstract

Based on a psychosocial approach to figurations of gender and sexuality in a profane celebration within a religious procession in Northern Brazil, this articles introduces inscriptions and readings as a strategy to address the limits and possibilities that we produceor expand when thinking about men and masculinities from a non-dichotomous perspective,concerned less about observing the obvious, and rather with exploring the instertices of imagination.

Author Biography

Benedito Medrado, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Grupo Feminista de Investigación en Género y Masculinidades Instituto PAPAI Red MenEngage Brasil Red Internacional de Estudios sobre Masculinidades

Doctor en psicología social; docente de la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco (cursos de pregrado y doctorado en Psicología). Co-coordinador del Grupo Feminista de Investigación en  Género y Masculinidades (GEMA/UFPE); integrante del Instituto PAPAI, de la Red MenEngage Brasil y de la Red Internacional de Estudios sobre Masculinidades.

Published

2016-04-20

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