Men with men, women with women: Country parodies in Goiás

Abstract

This article will present a brief ethnographic study of the relationship between gender and sociability in the southwest of Goiás, in small rural villages. The proposal is to expand the view on gender relations in rural areas and provide a social process - a universe of festivities - which emphasizes sociability between the same sex without subtracting the hegemony of heterosexual relationships and sexual division of labor. This article aims to show that same-sex relationships are challenging the idea of antagonism between men and women within the matrix of heterosexuality and, moreover, critique the mechanical reproduction of the patriarchal family in gender relations in the rural world.