Public Pedagogies as Masculine Pedagogies. Vasconcelos, the Athenaeum and the Intellectual Educators Against the Sex/Gender Order in Mexico

Abstract

This paper proposes a return of sex/gender to characters, places and speeches of men-males constructors of culture and nation, taking as starting point de idea of desvío (S. Molloy). Moreover, it proposes to redefine aspects such as education, culture, and of the man-male itself from gender studies, masculinities and Mexican historiography, activating the notion of arreglo from the sex/gender order (G. Rubin). In this process a fertile dialogue is established with the so-called public pedagogy, led by H. Giroux; and in such project, it is rebuilt, from the figure of José Vasconcelos and the configuration of the Mexican Youth Athenaeum, the process in which young Mexican intellectuals are invested as such and obtain the role of public educators. Lastly, in order to emphasize gender peculiarity of this phenomenon the function of some masculinising literacy strategies is rebuilt, such as homosociability and affection in passionate friendships, proposing one more, the so-called escritura entre iguales; this will work as a distinguished masculine pedagogy between other educational technologies of gender.