Estereotipos de género en el amor romántico de cuentos clásicos y construcción de roles de género de niños y niñas

Abstract

This monographic work conduct to establish the relationship between gender stereotypes in romantic love of the classic tales and the construction of gender roles of boys and girls. With this objective the gender stereotypes that appear in romantic love in classic tales and the basic notions about how gender roles are constructed in childhood are analyzed. This analysis is carried out mainly based on notions and concepts from the theory of performativity proposed by the philosopher Judith Butler; the contributions of the psychologist Consuelo Hurtado who broach different theoretical perspectives about how gender roles are constructed; and several studies conducted about romantic love, principally the published by the anthropologist Coral Herrera, who demystifies this social construction. Finally, classic tales that have mostly been used in the Basic General Education practices schools are analyzed, through the bibliographic recount of the gender stereotypes present in this typology of love and its relation with the construction of gender roles. The research and analysis indicate that an androcentric perspective prevails in the version of each one of the tales, with stereotyped information which perpetuates the gender roles that prevail in the Ecuadorian context.