This article aims to understand, from the per-spective of mothers, how it is being exercised the relationship between the school and the homomaternal families, that is, the ones con-sisting of two women who self-identify as lesbians and their children. The qualitative study included eleven women who have chil-dren of school age. Narrative interviews were used to collect the data brought by the moth-ers and, after signing an informed consent, the interviews were recorded and transcribed. The stories were analyzed from the perspec-tive of feminist studies of gender and also social and sociohistorical psychology. The results showed that there are still prejudice and stigmatization against those outside the heterosexual norm. However, it is possible to identify advances in school reality to under-stand the concept of extended form of fami-ly. These advances may indicate a Brazilian reality becoming increasingly open to break down stereotyped patterns related to ways of being and living.
Keywords:
gender, school, family diversity, prejudice, homomaternity
Palma, Y. A., & Strey, M. N. (2015). The school and family relationship: Family diversity composing the school context. Revista De Psicología, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2015.36918
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