What to do with teenage sexuality? The anthropology of forms of government in Brazil

Abstract This article discusses how the Brazilian Ministry for Women, Family and Human Rights operates in relation to prevention of so-called “teenage pregnancy”, analysing Ministry’s political strategies, directives, initiatives conversation with society-at-large, campaigns engaging their target public. We find, at interstices state bureaucracy, peculiar ways dealing erasing teenage sexuality gender markers that bear on socialization, both which are constitutive dimensions these subjects, favour an idyllic family ethos is contrasted sociocultural, material symbolic weave relations between generations within domestic sphere. Childhood self-care become central government rhetoric, mobilizing conservative strategies stem from alarmist outlook remains restricted private domain, singling out (cis)heteronormative - rather than schools as locus education.