MARKED BODIES, LIMITED SPACES: GENDER, INTERSECTIONALITIES AND INVISIBILITY IN SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Gender, Intersections, Physical Education.
The present work stems from questions and concerns conceived throughout my academic and professional journey in the field of education, motivated by the fact that I daily witness scenarios of oppression and discrimination against/among students due to issues mainly related to gender in spaces that originally and essentially are or should be for human formation and development. The general objective of the present study is to investigate gender relations and their intersections with other social markers of difference in the daily life of physical education classes. As a theoretical contribution to foster this discussion, Akotirene (2019), Bourdieu (2009), Butler (2019), Collins (2021), hooks (2018), and Scott (2019), among others, were used. As a methodological proposal, participant observation research was chosen (GIL, 2010). Two physical education teachers and eight students, both from incoming classes of high school at a federal public school located in the Baixada Fluminense, participated in this study. With the results achieved, it is hoped to provoke in-depth reflections in the field of physical education, aimed at fostering effective actions to combat all forms of discrimination motivated and intersected by gender issues and other social markers of difference.