| dc.description.abstract | The poststructuralist conception of identity, no longer seen as static, pre-discursive and natural, nor centered in the arguments of deficit, dominance and difference, proposes that there are several identities negotiated in situated sociocultural contexts (BUCHOLTZ and HALL, 2005; WENGER, 1998; ECKERT and McCONNELL-GINET, 1992; OSTERMANN, 2003, 2006; BUTLER, 1999, 2003; SPEER, 2005). People learn to be part of a social group within communities of practices (WENGER, 1998; LAVE and WENGER, 1991), through shared and negotiated practices, mainly in interaction, thus learning to be females and males within a continuous and life-long process. Locking up a person in fixed and binary categories ends up removing their agency in the world (BUTLER, 1990, 1993), restricting them to biological and cultural determinations. The big narrative (CAMERON, 2005) that positions men and women as universal categories suffers a shift within the poststructuralist perspective, since there is no ontological essence in gender identitie | en |
