TEACHING AS A SPACE FOR REINVENTION OF MALE BODY: resistance and subjectivity

Abstract

This scripture is configured as an offshoot of my master's research, which investigated how high school teachers experienced the "refusal to submit to hegemonic masculinity" and build their bodies and masculinity in relation to teaching. I analyze excerpts from teachers' narratives obtained through interviews in order to discuss the complex interweaving among affective relations from/in teaching, the faculty and their masculinity and their own artistic performance of themselves. For this analysis, I dialog mainly with authors such Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Nietzsche. The body of teachers is here understood as a plan and vehicle of affective and vibrational forces which pass through it, and that puts them in motion and reterritorialization un-reterritorialization: flow-forces that vibrate bodily and enable other subjectivity, as well as engender variations in their performativity of gender.