How is it to be different on business school? The performance of gay and bisexual students in a heteronormative undergraduate course

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Diego Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Mendonça, José Ricardo Costa de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicosibepes.org.br/index.php/recadm/article/view/3225
• topic: Management; performativity; performance; heteronormativity; LGBT; business school; Administração; performatividade; performance; heteronormatividade; LGBT; graduação em administração

This study aims to highlight the compulsory heterosexuality on business school and its relationship with the performance of gay and bisexual students. Based on the understanding of performativity, performance, heteronormativity and intelligibility matrix, interviews were conducted with 16 students (gay and bisexual) of the business school of a higher education institution and the collected statements were analyzed under the discourse analysis theory. We realize that the heteronormativity evidenced in the social practice of administration compels compulsory practices to students, being governed by rules that instigate the repetition of legitimate performances and which are supported by the linear understanding between body, sex and desire. The bodies of students circumscribed in the course tend to be regulated based on impositions established from compulsory heterosexuality. We also believe that the heterosexual matrix allows social control in business school from legitimate elements that seek to conform the student bodies to previously architected identities.