UNIVERSITY AND GENDER RELATIONS: NARRATIVES ABOUT FEMININITIES AND MASCULINITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The present study problematizes gender relations in Higher Education from the dichotomies between femininities and masculinities. Of qualitative approach, the production of narratives occurred through semi-structured individual interviews in three undergraduate courses at the University of Pernambuco, Petrolina Campus: Full Degree in Pedagogy, Full Degree in Mathematics and Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. In general, the production of data from the research points to the dissonances and processes of exclusion that cross the institutional daily life, the teaching and the curricula of the courses studied, regarding the maintenance of practices marked by sexism, binarisms and heteronormative patterns in the university. Higher education, according to the narratives analyzed, reproduces gender inequities that have hegemonic models of femininity and masculinity as the foundation for the maintenance of discourses and power mechanisms that have repercussions, especially in the experiences and formative processes of women and LGBTQIAP+ people.