Una aproximación a la construcción de las masculinidades de jóvenes estudiantes

Abstract

This article compiles relevant information from an investigation carried out at a UNAM high school, which shows the perception, practices, and discourses that characterize the exercise of masculinities among young men. It also shows a changing reality and a constant clash between the traditional and the new forms of masculinity demanded of young men. Based on this, the question arises about the expressions, characteristics, and situations of conventional masculinity that are still present in school communities. In this sense, emphasis is placed on the repercussions of the gender mandates, roles, and stereotypes under which they relate.
This causes young men to enter into controversy, as they do not know how to behave under the demands of the school, where there is an effort to establish egalitarian relationships, and what the family expects of them as males.