Femininity device, youth and images of the self as educational processes

Abstract

The article is the result of a research in the Education area, carried out with seven young women from a public school, interested in the relationship between the selfies images - which are published on social networks. The focus of analysis that we have chosen is related to the devices of femininity and youth that are activated and put into circulation for the construction of images of themselves as young women. This brings us closer to the Foucaultian perspective, understanding gender as traversed by relations of knowledge-power and which speaks of the processes of subjectivation as educational processes. Methodologically we work with focus groups and observation on the Facebook and Instagram pages, so that we will bring to the discussion speeches and analyzes based on what was built by these methodological procedures.