Falas masculinas ou ser homem em Fortaleza: múltiplos recortes da construção da subjetividade masculina na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This thesis deals with male experiences in contemporaneity. To begin with, I analyze studies about men in the category of gender, discussing notions such as sex, identity, condition, subjectivity and male roles. 1 describe the rituais of the making of the male condition, pointing out its anguish and conflicts, discussing the pain, the violence, the passion and the delight as constituent of the dilemma of contemporary man. Subjectivity and male roles are points of reference for questioning the possible crisis of masculinity, or rather, the changes in men nowadays. Based on the presupposition that most men resist manifesting intimacy to other persons, my research aimed at obtaining significant depositions about what it means to be a man, today, through multiple clippings as it were, of the making of virile subjectivity currently. I adopted a phenomenological listening to male subjectivity, focusing on the discussion about the depositions of 20 (twenty) men living in the city of Fortaleza, and interpreting them in the light of various theoretical allies from sociology of gender relationships. I discuss the significant depositions of these interviewed men on what it means to be a man in the world today, as well as their impressions about male subjectivity which is in constant reshaping. Their relationship with women, starting with the primary relationship, which is with their mothers, is another important point of my analysis, highlighting the games of seduction and the need these men's have to differentiate themselves from the female universe. 1 also analyze the relationship with their fathers, as well as the experiences with their own children. I discuss the situations in which male confusion and conflict about paternity may predominate in the models of identification - or the absence thereof. The relationship between men is understood here as a polarized field of competition and violence or friendship and intimacy. The universe and the meaning of work to these men were elected as significant elements in the making of male subjectivity, being the last important point of discussion in this thesis.