THE CULTURAL SCHEME OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE. A THEORETICAL REFLECTION

The current work tries to develop a brief theoretic reflection on gender and sexuality roles that are built according to established cultural patterns, and the contrast with the way that men and women portray their sexuality in daily life. This leads one to reflect on the processes and ways that individuals face socially learned gender schema, creating variations or resistance to them in the execution of everyday life. The experience and practice of gender and sexuality roles which man and women develop day to day, do not always answer to the cultural configuration of such roles. For this theoretic reflection Bourdieu, Heller, Leon, De Certeau and Weeks, among other authors, were refered to.