Abstract
This article consists of field research on gender norms in a Law Undergraduate at a public university in the South of Brazil, in which it is investigated how gender norms organize the relationships between female students in the field studied. The research, guided by post-structuralism, has a qualitative approach, with an exploratory objective, and has as its core point interviews carried out during the year 2021 in the aforementioned area. From the interviews, statements linked to power relations involving gender, race, corporeality, age, regionalisms. For this study, inspired by the intersectionality tool, it focuses on categories related to gender and race. It is also based on publicly available registered materials from the field, as well as a narrative bibliographic review, stitching the epistemological bias with theorists such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, as well as with post-colonial references, such as Lélia Gonzalez, Enrique Dussel and Gayatri Spivak. From the research, from the thematic analysis, it was noticed that the established power relations maintain access, visibility and academic recognition to subjects whose bodies and behaviors fit the prescriptions of the colonial order.
Keywords
Gender norms; intersectionality; coloniality; Law; teaching of Law