“As cumades das facções”: as relações de gênero e sexualidade, dentro das facções Okaida e Estados Unidos em João Pessoa/PB.

Abstract

This dissertation has as its object of study the constitutive and built relations of gender andsexuality within two urban factions that dispute the illicit drug trade in the city of João Pessoa / PB: the “Okaida” faction and the “United States” faction. Methodologically, this is an ethnographic research conducted with adolescents who met the socio-educational measure of internment between July 2015 and February 2016. The narrative and analytical perspective of the research is built from the experiences of female adolescents who are fulfilling socio-educational measure of internment in the Educational House. The interlocutors were aware of the internal relationships of the groups through direct participation, from the reality of the neighborhoods in which they lived, through family members who were members or even through the simultaneity of factors. It is understood that these relationships are constitutive, as there are specific rules regarding gender and sexuality, but they are also constructed through transgressions and negotiations of adolescents themselves among their peers.