Construction and identification of gender in colonial context

Abstract

The article aims to discuss the concepts of Bourdieu, how the fields of power, structured unconsciously, act in the sense of reaffirm the gender gap in the Western society, more specifically regarding projects of colonization, as it occurred in Brazil. And from that, we will demonstrate how the hierarchies in the identification of feminine gender were formed inside the Brazilian colonization process and how these are reaffirmed nowadays, bringing an hegemonic pattern essentialized and vehiculated by the fields of medical and mediatic power that contribute to the reaffi rmation on the differences of genders and to the essentialism of the feminine social roles that are stuck by an historic patriarchal structure.