Jovens mulheres e relações sociais de gênero no projeto educativo da Ordem Internacional das Filhas de Jó

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyse young women that belong to one specific group of juvenile, the International Order Job s Daughters (OIFJ), and to understand which senses they attribute to the youth condition and to that order. With that objective on mind, the research looked for the comprehension on who are those young women, what being a young women mean for them, how do they live their juvenile condition, and why do they join or not, to the formation project of that juvenile organization, that has the attached peculiarity of being sponsored by the masonry; what is the educational project developed by the OIFJ in order to incorporate the youth to its conception, and to its dynamics, and which is the ideal young women model that the organization is interested to form. The four young women interviewed expresses the large diversity of Brazilian youth, or, in other words, Brazilian youths, considering the high complexity of the contemporary juvenile universe, it is imperative to mention in terms of juveniles, using the plural, not the singular, and that, therefore, need more than one way of looking, and analyses, focused on the approach of the multiplicity that models the profile of the Brazilian youth. In order to delineate, trough the interviews done, one of the many ways the juvenile universe is presented: young women on OIFJ, and to apprehend who are these young ones beyond the symbolic dimension or youthful condition - "the way as a society constitutes and attributes meaning to this moment of the life cycle" the personal trajectory had been considered: the position in the society, the relationship with the family, the race, the religion, and, physical and cultural spaces on which those young circulates. The juvenile condition of the young women interviewed is mediated by a contemporary political historical context of modernity, in which predominates the market society (that considers the youth as a new and important part of the market), the knowledge society, the globalization, a social crises without precedents, that brings long term unemployment , the increase of the urban violence and an individualism based on neoliberal ideas. The interviews and the research on the way OIFJ is organized made possible to apprehend the way of living the youth of the interviewed girls, and how those young female, who belong to the OIFJ, live the juvenile condition.