“VIVA O POVO BRASILEIRO” WITH A LOOK OF GENDER

Abstract

The basic premise on which is based the study made of the work of João Ubaldo Ribeirobconsists if to reaffirm that the being a woman and being a man are genetics constructs carrying seized socially. Despite numerous spatial and temporal disjunctions, it appears from the text of Viva o Povo Brasileiro a series of marker characteristics of masculinities and femininities learning, which not only depict the woman and the man in the course of construction of the Brazilian nation until the contemporaneity in Brazil as in the western world, at least. Since the beginnings of the Brazilian culture, the girl has learned that being a woman you know take care of children, cooking, washing, ironing, take care of the House and husband; being a woman is to adopt a posture of serve, submit, obey the father, brother, roommate, etc. It is also be passive, dependent, docile, loving, gentle, patient, emotive, enjoyable and more an endless series of ' attributes' regarded as feminine. The boy, on the other hand, learns that being a man is to have under his command the experiences of others, particularly of women, is to be able to take decisions by an entire social group like family, is being active, manly, courageous, resolute, strong, etc. However, associated with the permanence of distinct stereotypes through the history of humanity, with a ' gender ' look there is also in Viva o Povo Brasileiro the existence of disruptions in some female and male gender roles historically constructed, without, however, having been translated over time on significant changes in  power relations between men and women.