Given that the body has been historically crossed by different devices, practices, knowledge, models and concepts, and also given that such process has taken place in the context of different institutions, this article delves into this question in the case of Argentinean educational institutions. This analysis is focused on those practices, knowledge and effects that can be found in the (re)configuration of male and female bodies, centered around physical education. Studying coeducational physical education classes has revealed the markedly asymmetrical and unequal power relations serve to construct a specific form of masculinity and a specific form of femininity.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION; ARGENTINA; GENDER RELATIONSHIP; SCHOOLS