“Com que roupa eu vou?” A (re)construção de identidades docentes a partir de discursos referentes ao corpo e à vestimenta de docentes do gênero feminino

Abstract

This master’s thesis has as main goal to analyze , by using the oral narratives of three teachers , the influence of discourse s regarding the bodies and the clothes of female teachers in the ir professional identities ( co nstruction In the analysis we so ught to map some (D)iscourses, that are many times considered nat ural, about how female educators should behave or dress during their teaching practices Furthermore it was investigated if in these (D)iscourses there were differences in the conduct to be adopted by teachers of different genders. This research is located in the field of Indisciplinary Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 2006) and it had as theoretical support, besides the studies deve loped by the field: Gee's (1990; 1999) theory of (D)iscourse and (d)iscourse, Kim’s (2016) and Bastos’ and Biar’s (2015) considerations on narratives, the five analytical tools proposed by Wortham (2001), among others. During my research it became evident that several (D)iscourses that circulate in society end up pointing to a so called “adequacy”, which should be followed by female teachers in their work environments. However, it was found that this adequacy process could happen differently among teachers of different genders. The results confirm that the discourses regarding the bodies and the clothes of the female educators end up influencing in their identity (re)constructions as teachers.