Typescript (photocopy). / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries / Department: Journalism and Mass Communication.

published_or_final_version / English / Master / Master of Philosophy

This thesis examines shojo manga (Japanese comics for girls) as a site of the subversion of gender. The focus will be on stories about cross-dressing, as the crossdressed heroine poses from the outset questions about the nature of girls within shojo manga and the girls who are supposedly reading the texts. The analysis takes place at two levels: visual language and narrative. Over the course of five chapters, focusing on a couple of series in each, this thesis will show the various ways categories of gender and sex are undermined in five different subgenres. Yet gender norms are recuperated in the end. The manga always return to the figure of the shojo , the ambiguously gendered "not-quite-female" female that must expire at adulthood and the regulatory function heterosexuality plays in this inevitable demise. Nevertheless shojo manga readers need not necessarily share this end. The various ways that the reader is positioned both visually and narratively suggests that her gender and sexuality remains ambiguous and indefinable.

Thesis (Licentiat). / Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-128).

"Memoire présenté pour l'obtention de la maîtrise d'Enseignement de lettres modernes." / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-108).

"Memoire présenté pour l'obtention de la maîtrise d'Enseignement de lettres modernes." / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-108).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-143).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-200).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. / Description based on contents viewed Oct. 5, 2007; title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-102).

Acompanha: Sugestão de roteiro para a produção de histórias em quadrinhos no ensino de ciências / As Histórias em Quadrinhos (HQs) caracterizam-se pela linguagem próxima da realidade dos alunos, pela aparência lúdica, o que as torna um veículo de comunicação poderoso que, além de ter riqueza de conteúdos e possibilidade de explorar muitos significados, é bem aceita pelos estudantes, que se sentem estimulados a aprender. Assim, a presente pesquisa objetivou identificar as contribuições desse gênero textual no Ensino de Ciências, especificamente para o estudo do Sistema Nervoso, no 5º ano do ensino fundamental I. O trabalho foi desenvolvido com um grupo de dezessete alunos em uma escola da rede privada do município de Ponta Grossa – PR. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida por meio de uma abordagem qualitativa, de natureza interpretativa e aplicada, tendo como suporte teórico os estudos de Waldomiro Vergueiro, Miriam Krasilchik e Nélio Bizzo. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram a importância da leitura, do uso e da construção de HQs na consolidação de esquemas mentais que organizem o aprendido. A riqueza de detalhes das histórias produzidas pelos alunos são um indicador de que a confecção e uso de HQs estimula e desperta a vontade de aprender do educando, configurando a aprendizagem. Como produto final dessa dissertação, confeccionou-se um roteiro com sugestões para os professores do Ensino Fundamental I de como utilizar Histórias em Quadrinhos no Ensino de Ciências. / Comics are characterized by a language that students recognize as part of their reality, as well as a ludic appearance, which makes them a powerful medium. Other than that, comics offer richness of content and are well accepted by the students, which feel encouraged to learn. Thus, the present study has as a purpose to identify the contributions of this genre in Science Education, specifically to study the nervous system, in the 5th grade of an elementary school. The study was conducted with a group of seventeen students in a private school in Ponta Grossa city, Paraná State, Brazil The research was conducted through a qualitative, interpretative and applied approach, based on Waldomiro Vergueiro, Miriam and Krasilchik Nelio Bizzo studies. The results depicted the importance of reading, using and constructing comics in the consolidation of mental schemes on the students, who can organize what they have learned. The details of the comics produced by such students indicate that the manufacture and usage of comics stimulates and awakens the desire to learn on the student, setting a Meaningful Learning. As a final product of this dissertation, a script with suggestions for teachers of elementary school to use comics in Science Teaching is presented.