Identidade de Gênero: Idéias Religiosas sobre o Masculino como Ângulo de Análise

Abstract

This text is about the cultural construction of the male supremacy. It aim to understand the influence of the religious ideas in the construction of the sort identity. To reach this objective, we look for to understand the influence of the religion in the social construction of the masculinities and, also, to understand the social and religious reasons that propitiate the institution of the masculine supremacy hierarchic. Speaking about of masculinities estimates that means to speak of objectivity, responsibility, tradition, power, steps, virility, these expressions they means to be able in the social interrelation of sort. Such affirmations find cultural and historical endorsement in the philosophy and the theology. The domination is understood in this work as characteristic trace of the relations of hierarchy sort. Our tradition culture has presented the idea that the sacred one for excellence, God, is a masculine entity, with patriarchies traces. The result of this cultural construction is the predominant characteristic of the masculine identity of sort, today, the conception is the man as dominator.