This article aims to describe the results of action research conducted with children in a public school in Campo Grande city in Mato do Grosso do Sul State. The actions are part of a wider investigation supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Such investigation presents two theoretical and methodological approaches: the literature one and the action research one. The research intends to promote moments of reflection and problematization on the issues of sexuality, gender and diversity, mediated by children's books, and collectively produce educational materials for/with children. The theoretical frameworks are those of cultural studies, geminist studies and foucauldian assumptions. Data were collected through written and illustrated texts, children's oral communication and collective production of educational materials. Gender representations of the children showed attitudes of conformity and resistance to social norms as well as possibilities of changes in the construction of being a boy and being a girl.
gender; research with children; representations