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This paper presents part of the results of a doctoral research dedicated to analyze the cycle of the educational policy on gender and sexual diversity in Brazil. Based on Stephen Ball's propositions, which applies Foucault's notions of power and discourse on educational policies, the analysis aimes, beyond the metrics, to understand the political-discursive dynamics that marked both the production of this policy as the systematic reaction that has been organized against it. This text analyzes the background of this policy, its main initiatives, the agents involved in its construction and the pedagogical discourse they produced. It also identifies its main opponents, their tactics and discursive strategies, seeking to understand how they are articulated with the reactionary movements that have dominated Brazil in recent years. Finally, the paper hilights evidences that the debate on gender and sexual diversity in schools survives even in times of conservatism, censorship and ideological terrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that sexuality is an inseparable dimension of human nature, working on the theme from the perspective of diversity becomes essential for the construction of citizen education, based on Human Rights. Thus, this paper seeks to describe how the theme is approached in Brazilian education, identifying weaknesses and indicating points for improvement. For its realization, we proceeded with a search in the theoretical framework, followed by a survey of publications between 2010 and 2019, in the SciELO database, using the words Education and Sexuality as subject descriptors. Twenty-eight (28) articles were selected that met the inclusion criteria and were relevant to the intended approach. Among the results obtained, it was found that the professors deal with the topic according to personal conceptions; Public Policies that aim to include the theme as a school content encounter moral or religious barriers and are not effective in practice; teacher training in the subject is too incipient; interventions assume a hygienist character and reinforce the heteronormative construction, in addition to the fact that there are few assessments available, making it difficult to provide a consistent basis for corrective actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intents to make a situation map of the Brazilian researches that addresses issues of gender and sexuality in teacher education. Searches were made for articles on the Scielo platform, which mapped publications from 1998 to 2018, and academic productions defended and posted in the period 2010 to 2020 at the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD, in Portuguese). Inspired by the state of the art research type, to present the gaps, potentialities and trends of the research in the area, which can help to give visibility and strength to a currently contested field of study. The results indicate an increase in production, in the last two decades, a recent intensification of post-critical research, a change in the concepts of gender and sexuality that go from categories linked to biological aspects to social constructions and to a strong relationship between the context of public policies for education and academic. Production. The research describes of teacher education that, in general, develop only punctual and poorly based actions, thereby reinforcing gender and sexuality patterns standards. Thus, they attest to the need for these courses to discuss and consider gender and sexuality studies to contribute to overcoming the practices of normalization, exclusion, prejudice and inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses how assumptions about the nature of childhood have been triggered in the confrontations about the legitimacy of gender and sexuality themes in education in contemporary Brazil. We analyse two practical-discursive pitfalls that have been consolidated in these confrontations. The first, forged by anti-gender discussion and education activists, consists in the narrative construction of vulnerable childhood to be protected, and triggers moral panic at the prospect of discussions about gender and sexuality in schools. The second, more subtle trap, concerns the situation of passivity attributed to students in the school context, who are considered to be the subjects of instruction by teachers, including those moments when gender and sexuality issues are addressed in the classroom. The image of a child-prisoner, passive and in danger made-up by the "gender ideologues," populates the narratives analysed in the first part of the paper. It allows us to discuss the political uses of the hyperinflation of this idea of child vulnerability. However, even in educational practices that invest in working gender and sexuality matters in school setting, we observe that children can be conceived as lacking agency, such as discussed in the paper's second part. In order to challenge these logics, we highlight the ludic dimension and playing with conceptual and methodological tools that can contribute to a non-pedagogizing approach to gender and sexuality in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While transgenderism as a cultural phenomenon seems to be based on a collective taste for the sensational, its emergence represents a collective shift towards a new or more differentiated way of experiencing and expressing sex and gender, a movement of world soul. This paper attempts to explore that emergence from a Jungian perspective. The paper utilizes clinical examples which illustrate how dissociated aspects of the personality are seeking assimilation and expression in order to move the personality towards greater wholeness. In that sense, it attempts to understand the teleology of transgenderism on an individual and collective level. The paper is intended as a starting-off point for discussion and explores gender as fantasy, anima/animus dynamics, the psyche/soma relationship, the role of hormones/biochemistry in our experience of ourselves and what transgender people carry and suffer for our culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze 39 academic papers on different themes about sexual diversity produced 1988-2015. The analysis is based on four pairs: Sexual practices/Bodies, Marriage/Families, Identities/Prejudice and Rights/Citizenship. Based on that, we propose new themes for investigation and reflections about the challenges within the Salvadoran higher education to build the field of Sexual Diversity Studies. In conclusion, despite the existence of 39 papers - which are a step forward -, the closet of the Salvadoran Academy is still closed, and therefore a question arises: how can we open it? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of an exploratory research carried out in two graduation courses at the Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros with the objective of verifying the presence and the degree of prejudice through five Likert-type scales: the F Scale, from Adorno et al. (1950), three scales built by the authors to assess prejudice related to gender, sexuality and race - using the F Scale as a model - and a fifth scale, the Homophobia Scale, presented in Venturi and Bokany (2011). This work is justified by the high incidence of violence against women, blacks and LGBT people in Brazil. The results obtained indicated a moderate presence of sexist, racist, homophobic, heteronormative tendencies and susceptibility to adherence to fascism, corroborating the results of other studies and pointing to the need for greater investments to combat prejudice, especially in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a reflection on the role of gender relations, masculinities and forms of sexualization in social research. The current context of expansion of feminisms -particularly in Latin America and Argentina- amplifies the focus on the sexed and generated dimensions of research. Moreover, this conjuncture time highlights a set of tensions in power relations and affections in fieldwork. Taking into account these points, analysis is based on fieldwork from two investigations: one with women who offer commercial sex and other about men who pay for sex. I focus on sexual and gendered interpellations and the field of emotionality -understood as a space that connects meanings and bodies-, to essay a situated reading intersecting the methodological, epistemological and political perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to the current body of research on gender and sexuality within videogames. By adopting a politicalcommunications perspective that positions videogames as configurative media, this paper discusses the involvement of video games in the 'scene of dissensus' (Rancière e Corcoran, 2010) within the politics of gender and sexuality. The concept of configuration, common in the study of videogames and human-machine interaction, is reframed within a dialogical and interactional context, in dialogue with the praxiological model of communication proposed by Louis Quéré (1995). As configurative media, videogames both configure and are configured by a network of relations that include individuals, industry, culture, and politics, amongst many others. By calling attention to videogames as a configuring element in this 'scene of dissensus', I argue that the medium has the potential to generate conversations and reconfigure the consensual discourse of gender and sexuality that affects its players, the games industry, and the gamer culture. The three games under analysis - Dys4ia, Always Sometimes Monsters and Mass Effect - present different aspects of the gamer culture that challenge this consensus. Using mechanics, narrative and experience as analytical operators, I demonstrate that it is possible to use these characteristics peculiar to videogames as political discourse, and as evidence of present-day challenging of established socio-politicalcultural rules that demand from individuals the fulfillment of a heteronormative and patriarchal social role. This paper concludes that players, developers, media and society should more carefully consider the influence and political potential of digital games. As potential argumentative tokens for the political discussion of gender and sexuality, they can act as disruptors in the consensus of such social issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tackles interactions between two fields of study since the 1960's. On the one hand, it presents academic production about sexual minorities in Mexico City, in order to observe how it integrates spatial variables; on the other hand, it studies in which forms urban studies have incorporated sexual minorities as an object of analysis. The first part of this paper describes academic works that have been produced about sexual minorities and illustrates the increasing weight of geographic aspects in the understanding of their practices and identities; whereas the second part offers a reading of those references to pay attention to the discussions and results related to contemporaneous metropolitan processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a comparative analysis on the thematic representation of the subjects Gender and Sexuality between the SophiA system, from the National Library -- BN, and the Pergamum system, from the Federal University of Pernambuco -- UFPE. The objective of the research was to analyze comparatively how the subjects Gender and Sexuality are being represented in the BN and UFPE systems. The justification is based on the proposal of an adequate representation of the subjects Gender and Sexuality, so that the search and recovery are more precise in both SophiA/BN and Pergamum/UFPE, by the users of that domain. The research was characterized as descriptive, with comparative, qualitative and inductive characteristics; it is a case study that was meant to understand and interpret if the terms that were attributed to certain titles of the theme fit efficiently to the subjects that are actually treated by them. The investigative corpora were collected in two stages: a) from the search for the subjects "Gender Identity", "Sexuality" and "Gender and Sexuality" in SophiA/BN, a list was created of the titles found in relation to the subject in scope national level, from 2010 to 2014; b) the titles retrieved in SophiA/BN were searched in the Pergamum/UFPE, generating a second list -- of the titles that were found; thus, the works resulting from these two filtrations, that is, those found in both collections, had their terms analyzed comparatively in conjunction with the terms that were extracted from the titles themselves and respective copies. After analyzing and discussing the results, it was concluded that the subjects Gender and Sexuality are not being accurately explored, either by the SophiA/BN system or by the Pergamum/UFPE system, raising questions about the importance of the indexing specificity of those subjects and the professional ethics needed in this process to promote access to information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze in what way the notions of sexuality, gender and identity pose questions to psychoanalysis, as they problematize forms of subjectivation present in their discursive practice. Taking into account Foucault's analysis of the formation of the device of sexuality and Butler's discussion on the problem of identity in gender discussions, we intend to situate the place of the Oedipus complex in the constitution of the subject in psychoanalysis and Freud's critique of the moralization of sexuality in modern experience. To conclude, based on the notions of vulnerability and dispossession of the self, we revisit the psychoanalytic concepts of helplessness and femininity to reflect on the importance of a thinking on otherness for psychoanalytic practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Centlivre has been regarded as a master of sentimental comedy, a genre that reached its maximum popularity in the 18th century. This paper argues that The Basset Table (1705) is no typical sentimental comedy, since it actually carries a deeper meaning and social message, much more in accordance with her Whig ideas. I also argue that this play questions the established gender roles: undermining the image of the virtuous and charitable lady and the valiant gentleman and questioning the punishing of the widow and the rewarding of the rake, Centlivre builds a subtle, yet highly effective criticism of a society that does not allow for personal freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects the role of intersexuality in the field of contemporary, political and epistemic dispute, with regard to gender and sexuality. It is based on Geertz's conception of common sense as a cultural system in relation to understanding the fields of dispute concerning the body, normality, autonomy, knowledge and power. It is indicated that 'opposition' can be understood as an epochal condition, whereby certain socio-symbolic coordinates strive to extend the models of intelligibility of the human being --associated with posthumanity-- whilst others seek to maintain it within traditional limits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the gendered underpinnings of religion using a feminist lens. It names the violence embedded in the gendered notions of religious ideology and praxis and shows how religion can be "injurious" to women's growth because of the following factors: the hierarchical dualism that alienates them from the Spirit and identifies them with the body while marginalizing them through their positioning on the lower rungs of the hierarchical ladder; the exclusive male imagery of God and its mediation by an all male priestly class and the scriptural injunctions which are inscribed by patriarchal thought and deployed to keep women in defined roles and spaces. Catholic teachings and practices are taken as a case of analysis to unearth the political dynamics by which religion reinforces 'gendering - women's exclusion from theological knowledge making spaces and the gendered religious indoctrination which become hegemonic codes that shape women's consciousness and keep them without grievance in their subjugated status. It shows further how female body and sexuality are major sites of religious gender politics through the strict controls on women's dress-codes and the sexual servicing expected of them in marriage. Finally, the paper advocates critical thought as a tool for exploding the hardened rock of gendered religious foundations and shows how overcoming the contradictory consciousness and waking up to a critical consciousness becomes imperative for women to be freed of the gender dictates of religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an analysis of the discursive practices related to the sociocultural construction and perception of gender, sexuality and body, expressed by young male and female Nahuas university students, from the Huasteca Potosina region of Mexico. This document highlights the relevance of empirically and theoretically identifying a specific field related to youth issues, in which the different sociocultural aspects of being and becoming a young person converge within a determined society. Moreover, given the lack of research on indigenous youth regarding gender issues, this paper also proposes joint disciplinary fields: the gender perspective in relation to ethnicity and youth studies. It concludes that school, or more precisely the uni- versity environment, establishes a social space for young people, which within the indigenous communities and society in general, distinguishes and defines a population; furthermore, we can also observe that both male and female Nahuas University students strengthen the dominant models of gender, sexuality and body, though, at the same time, they elaborate critical reflections that tend to transform the said models. This shows a dynamic field of youth in transformation. This is to say, it is a field of youth influenced by multiple ways of being young, which position themselves and relate to each other in terms of conflict and exclusion, but also in terms of consensus and identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper inquiry about the processes of subjectivity and the emergence of asexuality in order to observe some peculiarities and particularities in the contemporary context.We conducted a study of the history of asexuality from the perspective of Michel Foucault and a rhizomatic perspective making a dialogue between the ideas of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. We have described asexuality as a possibility of sexual orientation, perceived as a non-sexual desire and as a political act. We have gone through the depathologization process of asexuality as an effective possibility. We use a two-step procedure as a methodological process: netnography and semi-structured interviews conducted with individuals, who identify themselves as asexual, going through the analysis of these speeches and stories and associating it with the process of self-identification. We conclude that it is necessary to give visibility to asexuality sustaining the balance of power present in this sexual orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents and discusses the results of an analysis carried out from the academic production of an important association of research in education in Brazil, ANPEd, especially that developed by researchers linked to GT 23: Gender, Sexuality and Education. This analysis was elaborated to subsidize a set of researches carried out in the South region of Brazil, linked to a Post-Graduate Program in Education. From this production, taking as a theoretical reference the Gender Studies and the Foucaultian Studies, the present article seeks to examine 25 papers presented at annual meetings between 2004 and 2014. This analysis makes it possible to reflect on the ways in which gender and sexuality are approached by focusing on teacher education, and offers contributions so that future research problems can be built and delimited on these topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to map the uses and impacts of the epistemological effects of queer contributions in the educational knowledge production in Brazil. To do this, we seek to outline a (provisional) plan that might indicate part of the complex plot through which these epistemological experiments, self-proclaimed and/or interpellated as dissidents, become entangled in the context of gender and sexuality academic studies. Therefore, we are interested in promoting mappable interlocutions from our experiences as Latin American subjects - experiences marked by the intersection of several social markers of identity and difference which constitute and impel us to (re)think our everyday perceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of difference between sexes is on debate across different disciplines and has been at the center of the political discussion that led in Argentina to important legal modifications on the structure of kinship, on models of filiation, on family organization. It's necessary to explore the conditions of the social bond, and to do it, Freud's and Lacan's teachings help question problems regarding a subject that psychoanalysis considers divided, and therefore not reducible to their conscious intentionality. In Buenos Aires, in 2017, an excellent play was presented, truly the theatrical event of the year, that shed some light on these issues: Millions of Seconds, by Diego Casado Rubio, at El Extranjero Theater. This paper reflects on the theatrical poetics and articulates the conceptual differences between sex, gender, sexuality and sexuation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents research results with the objective of analyse uses and effects of sexual identities in the context of the Fórum de Lésbicas Gays, Travestis e Transexuais de Pernambuco (LBGT/PE), northeast of Brazil. To this end, it is defined as specific objectives: 1) to identify the designations used by the subjects that compose this collective; 2) to identify meanings produced on the sexual identities in their encounters; and 3) to analyse tension fields and strategic uses of identity cat - egories. The methodology involved everyday observations in the meetings of the Forum LGTB\PE, during 12 sessions. In the analysis processes were included other elements, such as: posters, meeting records, e-mails, space arrangement, T-shirts. The analysis presented show the materialization of a field-theme as heterogeneous network, interconnected by different moments, places and subjects, and the Forum LGBT/PE as a point of connections, which is not limited to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a long time, Irish women's lives were strictly confined to the private domain, and women's issues were largely silenced and hidden from public knowledge. Additionally, both Church and state maintained that women should hold a certain morality, particularly relating to areas of sexuality and reproduction. As a result, until relatively recently, Irish women's issues remained largely ignored and therefore unremarked upon. This paper will examine two major areas in which Irish women's lives have traditionally been repressed: women's sexuality and domestic violence, both issues which were once considered taboo for open discussion. This paper will also discuss how these same issues are being represented in Irish chick lit novels, thus providing a frank and positive voice for these largely female issues and for the everyday experiences of women in Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an analysis based on the ethnography in sex clubs and sex bars for men in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The paper examines how the different markers that operate in such areas are being melted to produce desirable bodies and subjects. I locate these sites in the broader market for commercial sexual encounters among men in the city, exploring social conventions and practices that permeate the body, sexual practices and erotic choices. This is a starting point for inquiring the ways in which certain stereotypes of "masculinity" are provided with meaning and are embodied. I also propose a revision of the erotic choices and sexual practices, which challenges the idea of eroticism expressed by thinkers such as Georges Bataille. According to him, gender is fixed and crystallized, is linked to sexual dimorphism of sex/gender positions. The body "violated", passive and penetrated, is "feminine"- the opposite of the "masculine" ones, the "active", that penetrates. This design underlines the erotic within the heterosexual matrix, which prevents thinking beyond or outside the limits of its rules. Following post-structuralist thinking on gender and sexuality, as well as queer theory, I wonder if we could try to deconstruct the erotic in other terms, in order to interpret anthropologically the practices, discourses and talks discussed here as potentially transgressive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with sexual behavior from a gender perspective in women from a town located at the south of Veracruz State, Mexico. I point out how the female sexual behavior is a result from that particular male society and how it imposes moral codes to women, due to their male hegemony which needs to control female sexual behavior. I analyze that sexuality is a social construction and a changing historical product, therefore sexual moral codes are present as changing elements that show in advance the social picture and the female fantasies over their moral obligations. Also, transgressions from the "ruling" perspective are explained in accordance with the idea that accepted sexuality is genderized from a moral point of view but not relevant with the actual activities of the collectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the constitution of gender and sexuality from the relationship between ministry power, discipline and biopolitics driven by religion, by the state and education in the curriculum component Aspects of Citizen Life (AVC) which is part of the curriculum design “St. Francisco Xavier School of Primary and Middle Education". The “College of St. Francisco Xavier" (CSFX), as it is known, is an educational institution in the city of Abaetetuba (PA) that works in partnership between the Education Department of Pará State (SEDUC) and the Diocese of Abaetetuba. The analysis was based on statements of documents raised and cut into an heterogeneous set of curricular elements traversed by injunctions of different fields of knowledge and power relations, which tracks the discursive series and different ways of standardizing the subject through the object and gender sexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the theoretical perspective of Cultural Studies and Gender Studies, the paper aims to analyze and discuss the ways in which gender and sexuality issues have been addressed in basic education and teacher training courses. We analyzed some situations experienced by the authors during the research: an in-person meeting with groups of 5th year of a public school in Rio Grande do Sul, for clarification and discussion of questions related to gender and sexuality; interviews with the teachers in these classes; participation in a committee of the Programa Nacional do LivroDidático focused on the analysis of textbooks used in Brazilian schools and, finally, some activities related to teacher training in higher education. In conclusion, the Basic School, the ways of living / explore the body and sexuality worked within the school are still linked to biological and health issues. In general, teachers tend to rely on these approaches more "scientific" which, in a way, restrict the issue of sexuality to reproduction and reiterate heteronormativity. There are small advances with respect to issues of gender and sexuality in the textbooks analyzed, but there are also some setbacks that contribute to the perpetuation of prejudice and exclusion situations. When asked to think about such issues and to critically analyze how some materials traditionally used in classrooms of basic education build certain sexualized and gendered representations, student in training find it very difficult. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What contents and skills should be included in teacher initial and continual education? What are the challenges of teacher preparation In Brazil? How does gender cut across and constitute teacher preparation in our country? In this paper I attempt to answer these questions, based on reflections interwoven during my trajectory as a teacher educator and technical aidefor the federal government in monitoring teacher initial and continual education actions, in different cities and regions of the country. I argue about the importance of incorporating a gender perspective in teacher practice. In order to accomplish this, there are challenges of various kinds, which need to be faced jointly by higher education institutions, public policies, and teachers themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper addresses the issue of sexuality and gender definition from multiple psychoanalytic perspectives. Based on the ideas of Freud is touring many debates about what defines "gender choice". It relies on Lacan developments to try to reach a little further on this issue, trying to show the intimate relationship between the subject constitution and sexuation. It ends with a clinical example of a female homosexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I propose to discuss the power relations which permeate gender configurations. This discussion follows the analysis of two films and scenic proposals adopted in teachers formation, all of them focusing on speeches marked by differences based on naturalized and hierarchical concepts of bodies. By virtue of their gender identification and sexuality, certain individuals are victims of various social exclusion processes, a context that is often the theme of several artistic productions that pungently deal with the unstable character of subjectivities construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to examine how Judith Butler's notion of subversion can be applied to a polemical case in gender theory: the appearance of alternative pornography. Firstly, we will reconstruct the main elements of her theory of subversion as it is presented in Gender Trouble. Secondly, we will put into use her theoretical tools to analyze the mentioned case. What we will try to prove in relation to alternative pornography is that this practice was resignified through the appropriation of its methods by those who were traditionally excluded by it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notion of integral care, established as a principle for actions and policies in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), has guided various discussions in the field of Collective Health. Following the direction of the debate on comprehensiveness-gender, this paper explores the (dis)articulation between sexuality and reproduction in the assistance provided to women and men in facilities of Primary Health Care (PHC). To that end, it makes a double appropriation of the idea of relationship, regarding men-women and sexuality-reproduction as inherently relational. This study is part of a multicentered qualitative survey conducted to investigate the relationship between men and PHC facilities. It uses data from ethnographic observation of four Family Health Units, located in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco. The results point to disarticulations in the organizational structure of the facilities, which compromise the effectuation of an integral health care for men and women. Accordingly, the discourses and practices of health professionals (re)produce fragmentations in the assistance, especially on the basis of the association men-sexuality and women-reproduction. Taking the comprehensiveness as a horizon, it points to the need for a (re)articulation between sexuality and reproduction that, instead of subordinating one to another, allows the recognition of the various expressions of those spheres in concrete experiences of men and women, as well as the dialogue between different interventions related to sexual health and reproductive health starting from the possible points of convergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the gender differences in associated meanings, attitudes and behavior in a sample of 395 students, using a self-report questionnaire. The data are analyzed by cluster analysis, factor analysis, Student t, Mann-Whitney's U and chi-square. In both genders we find a positive image of sexuality, bound to a discourse typical of sexual education. Women given more value to sexuality within the couple's relationship and to sexual abstinence. With respect to the associated meaning 5 groups can be distinguished: Physical sex, with masculine bias; sex as an expression of love and sexual education messages, both with feminine bias; maturity and associated academic topics, as well as gender difference, both without gender bias. Female sexual behavior is more inhibited. It is concluded that the strongest differences appear in behavior, being congruent with the differences in attitudes and meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Physical Education is a rich field in gender meanings and principles. Within school practices, it is thus positioned as one of the spaces for the strongest identity building as regards gender and sexuality. These meanings and principles, understood as a result of social and historical practices, classify and order the world and experiences of girls and boys in a segmented, fragmented way. Based on the relevance of a broad notion of curriculum as an articulating mechanism of some knowledge-power relations at school, this paper provides a comparative approach in Physical Education, from the standpoint of gender and the production of sexual difference. By curriculum we understand not only the prescriptive framework featured in the "written" curriculum, but also the "hidden" curriculum, i.e., those social mandates that regulate schooling practices. Our analysis is focused on the Physical Education curricula in Canada and Argentina. First, we look at the curricular issue as seen on the written text, focusing on Health and Physical Education curricula in the province of Ontario, Canada, and the area of Physical Education in Argentina's introductory courses at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Then we analyze some aspects of the hidden curriculm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]