| Room 518 | Spanish Presentations Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Time: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM |
Body and sexuality: narratives of gender and social representations in youth mexicans.
Ayus Reyes, Ramfis *,1, Almeida Hernandez, Yanet, Montejo Sanchez, Luis , 1 El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
ABSTRACT- The communication informs on a study how youth people construct representations to speak about sexual and reproductive practices and relationships in which they involve their bodies. Social representations are gathered and analyzed; they are focus into experiences of initiation inside the active sexual life, metaphors, images about the body and its cares, risks and pleasures that involve the sexual practices. We pay attention in tales, histories, narrations, conversations, more and less personals with the youth teenagers give sense to their lives, construct their identities and take decisions. From the point of view of the theory, we work with the notion of body and bodythness, habitus and the social representations theory. Methodologically they are reconstructed, using resources of the narrative analysis, the cognitive processes that youth teenagers used to talk about their bodies and their sexuality. The communication is a result of researches made in Mexico city and the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in the southeast of the country. Through the analysis of 131 interviews of depth and one ten collective workshops.
Key words: sexuality, body, gender, social representation, youth