Gender under the mat. Conversations about body/bodies in Physical Education

Abstract

The following article refers to an analysis of a virtual workshop experience, to which we were invited to talk about Physical Education and gender. It seems that in some areas of Physical Education, talking about gender and sexualities is a theme in which it elicits silence and concealment. The intention of thinking about the hidden nature of gender in Physical Education led us to ask ourselves about the way of looking at bodies that appears in this disciplinary field. From the dialogues with the participants in the talk: “The gender under the mat. Conversations about body (s) in Physical Education”, elements emerge that account for these modes and give us the opportunity to revisit the areas in which the knowledge of the discipline is crystallized and the routes, theoretical traits and lines that were building the way of looking at the body in body pedagogy, to think the limits of a possible sexual education in key of the Physical Education.