Power ministry, discipline and biopolitics:gender and sexuality in Aspects of Citizen Life

Abstract

This paper analyzes the constitution of gender and sexuality from the relationship betweenministry power, discipline and biopolitics driven by religion, by the state and education inthe curriculum component Aspects of Citizen Life (AVC) which is part of the curriculum design“St. Francisco Xavier School of Primary and Middle Education”. The “College of St. FranciscoXavier” (CSFX), as it is known, is an educational institution in the city of Abaetetuba (PA) thatworks in partnership between the Education Department of Pará State (SEDUC) and the Diocese of Abaetetuba. The analysis was based on statements of documents raised and cut into an heterogeneous set of curricular elements traversed by injunctions of different fields of knowledge and power relations, which tracks the discursive series and different ways of standardizing the subject through the object and gender sexuality.