“Ilha das Lágrimas”: uma transgressão dos padrões hegemônicos de masculinidade

Abstract

This text analyzes the social character of the construction of gender and sexual identities, and how hegemonic thinking creates patterns for society and limits people's experiences. Within these limitations, we analyze the hegemonic masculinity that determines that to be a “real man” it is necessary to be and act within a model, and thus, with the help of Connell (2013), Finco (2010; 2012), Louro (2018), Miskolci (2012), Santos (2020) and Saffioti (2012), we seek to understand the consequences of this conservative thinking, based on the binarism of male/female gender, within educational institutions, with children and, more specifically, with boys and its subjectivities. Finally, we bring as a possibility of pedagogical practice the children's book Ilha das Lágrimas, which searches for positive masculinities and reveals that it is possible for boys and men to feel and express their emotions and feelings.