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Family, work, gender identities

This article presents a qualitative research with fifteen women between 20 and 35 years old. The objective of the study was to apprehend their representation about Feminine Identity, inquiring the place attributed to women in family and at work, including gender and power relations. Hence, a semi-structured interview was applied, recorded and literally transcripted for later analysis. The data shows multiples feminine identities: women occupying new subject-positions; feminine work enabling the crosswalk between public and private spaces; and new modalities of gender relations. At last, the notion of gender identity is considered to be historical; as a cultural identity socially constructed, therefore possible to be putted into question.

Gender identities; work; family


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