Discussing gender as a social construction through the creation of an educational folder

Abstract

The text aims to describe the experience of master’s students from the Graduate Program in Collective Health at the Federal University of Pernambuco in the process of developing a folder to contribute to                                          discussions related to the impact of the social construction of gender on society. In designing the brochure, the researchers prioritized content that was suitable for the general population, prioritizing a democratic and problematizing language that revealed the impact of the social construction of gender on society and demonstrated its structuring nature. The brochure was chosen because it was easy to design and disseminate and could arouse readers’ curiosity through problematizing topics aimed at “destructuring” the concepts of masculinity and femininity. The experience highlighted the challenge involved in producing educational material to debate the social construction of gender, especially given the depth of the subject and the various possible ways of approaching it. The folder proved to be a useful tool for sharing information and an interesting instrument for promoting health education.