SEXUAL IDENTITY: A REFLEXIVE APPROACH TO THE VOICES OF THE ACADEMIC STAFF

Abstract

The concept of sexual identity is a construct that has been installed in communities as a way of understanding diversity. It is composed of gender identity, gender role, biological sex, and sexual orientation. The objective of the research focused on unveiling in the academic experience the configurations of meaning in prescriptive and active discourses regarding sexual identity in a higher education institution that trains educators from the perspectives of inclusion and diversity. The study was based on an interpretative-qualitative approach based on a hermeneutic phenomenological method. In the first stage, interviews
were conducted with male and female academics. The second stage focused on a documentary analysis of institutional management instruments. Within the active
and prescriptive discourses, the academics configure their sexual identity with the gender self-concept and maintain a relationship of tension between the per-
sonal and working world. In which the roles and functions assumed by them are evaluated according to their efficacy, leaving underhandedly the self-esteem or the authenticity of the subjects.