Gender and education: an analysis from the perspective of biopolitics

Abstract

This article aims to address the construction of gender as a mechanism of biopolitics and how this influences and interferes in education, bearing in mind that, through these movements, it is also controlled who has access to knowledge and how these concepts are used to promote patriarchy and the control of bodies. From this perspective, one can analyze the stigmatization of bodies that matter and that do not matter in a contemporary Brazil that reproduces and encourages gender stereotypes, including in the place where these standards should be deconstructed: school. It seeks to reflect on the construction, division and hierarchization of these bodies and how these conceptions are used to manage life in society.