%0 Journal Article %T Reflexiones en Torno a la Masculinidad Hegemonica en Ni£¿os de una Escuela Rural en Chile %A Ram¨ªrez Pavelic %A M¨®nica %A Contreras Salinas %A Sylvia %J Psicoperspectivas %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol11-Issue1-fulltext-163 %X this article is based on research conducted with children from rural areas, living in a school/internship belonging to a rural community in the ninth region of araucania-chile. we used a qualitative methodology with discussion groups. we worked with six children aged between 8 and 13. in this article we review the concepts of gender and masculinity constructed by them, their beliefs related to being male and being female, as they relate to girls/women and the positions assumed in the discourse.among the findings we highlight the primacy of a negative code concerning the constitution of masculinity, framed whiting in the particular circumstances of rural areas and boarding systems. %K masculinities. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-69242012000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en