HETERONORMATIVITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEING LESBIAN IN WORKPLACES
Heteronormativity, lesbians, organizations
Given the few studies on the effects of being a lesbian in the workplace, this project aims to understand the effects of heteronormativity on being lesbian in organizations. The theme will be analyzed in the light of Foucauldian references, concerning sexuality and its devices, as well as criticisms made by Butler regarding the heteronormative system, thus adopting a queer perspective, from a post-structuralist and post-identity of studies that understand gender as a social, cultural and historically situated construction. In-depth interviews will be used with people who identify, define themselves, perform and reproduce the lesbian category. The findings will be submitted to the Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA), which allows the investigation of the discourses constructed about the social reality of lesbians, as well as their connections to the power relations inserted in their social contexts.