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As an artist working with the female model, this practice-led research examines concepts of alterity and subjectivity while challenging the dominant role of male subjectivity in the western world. It revolves around the relationship between myself and the female subject, a specific woman who within the context of my work epitomises but at the same time transcends womanhood. This undertaking suggests that my representations of her body grow out of a dialectical tension between the feeling that the female other has almost become a metonymic extension of myself, and the awareness that such a feeling is at the same time illusory. The practical component of my investigations takes the form of body-themed box assemblages which are reminiscent of polyptychs, tabernacles and reliquaries. However, the sacred images which form part of these ecclesiastical items are replaced with others showing close-ups of the fragmented bodies of the model and myself. While this kind of profane artefact acts as a receptacle for our bodies which are broken down and enshrined together with other objects, it constitutes part of an ongoing process whereby the relationship between myself and the female figure is metamorphosed, re-shaped, and re-visioned. The significance of these creations is meant to extend beyond their artefactual existence and become mediums through which I re-visit female sexuality and eroticism and assess them within a spiritual context, albeit in the circumscribed framework of a particular woman. The artefact s ultimate objective is to appease my innate desire to access the other via a self-reflexive process which involves both mirroring and distancing at one and the same time. This process also includes an exploration into the spiritual with the aim of exploiting that which is other in the western theological tradition, namely God and the Divine. The gaze is also deeply involved in this exploration of the other. In fact, while our bodies are subjected to a re-visitation and trans-valuation in parts through multiplication and fragmentation, the gaze is in the process broken down into a series of glances which originate from myself, the viewer or the female subject. This process questions and disrupts the dominance of the male gaze, and its associated precepts, in Western visual culture. Finally, by correlating the model s body with the divine, my artefacts seek to give this woman, as an embodiment of the true other, a trans-corporeal identity. Rather than seeking to exert control over the other, they provide a pious space wherein the self and the other are able to encounter each other in a manner that initiates an equitable relationship, unhindered by presumptive knowledge. This is aided by the aesthetics and dynamics underlying the box assemblage which, while expressing gender fluidity and encouraging disengagement from preconceived dogmas a sort of reverse cognition also enhances the experience of its deific symbolism.

The aim of this research is to investigate the representation of the female gender in theTerminator franchise and to examine whether there has been an evolution in thisrepresentation throughout the years. For this purpose, the representation of the lead femalecharacter, Sarah Connor, has been examined in the films The Terminator (Cameron, 1984),Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Cameron, 1991) and Terminator Genisys (Taylor, 2015), inwhich Sarah Connor is the only main female character. The thesis begins by providing athorough presentation of the situational, specific and the theoretical background of the threefilms analysed. Then, the methodology used in the research is described and linguistic, visualand contextual data are provided. These data are then analysed and discussed in relation tothe background of the films and to the objectives set at the beginning of the research. Inparticular, the linguistic aspect of gender representation is explored based on the waylanguage is used to represent women in the Terminator films. After a thorough analysis ofdata collected and discussed, the research concluded that there has, indeed, been an evolutionin female gender representation in the Terminator films, which reflects an evolution in theperception of gender by society itself.

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Do women suffer from a societal Stockholm Syndrome which leads them to display high levels of modern and traditional sexist behavior? Does a woman*s level of modern or traditional sexist behavior influence her political choices? Female gender resentment and sexist biases are an understudied area of the extant literature on sexism. Typically the focus is placed on men*s sexist attitudes and treatment of women, but is it possible that women also contribute to the subordination of their gender through sexist practices? These are questions which this thesis attempts to answer. The findings indicate that working women under the age of 39 are more likely to display modern sexist behavior and that female homemakers under the age of 39 display high levels of traditionally sexist behavior. These attitudes carry over into the political decision making processes and have a negative impact on whether a woman would be likely to support a female presidential candidate.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:46:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SANDRA CELIA COELHO GOMES DA SILVA SERRA DE OLIVEIRA.pdf: 3764340 bytes, checksum: c1068b9bc3b5a5ebca7383c6d242ec5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-05 / This thesis is a study about women in the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa, emphasizing gender relations, analyzing the space of the pilgrimage as a social reproduction of the ideology of the patriarchal family and of the female gender identity. The research environment is the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa, which has been held for 323 years in that city, located in the western region of Bahia. The subjects in the research are pilgrim women who fall in an age group of between 50 and 70 years-old and have been participating in the Pilgrimage for more than five consecutive years; they are from five Brazilian states (Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Espírito Santo and Goiás) that report a higher rate of participation in this religious event. We utilized as our research methodology the bibliographical, qualitative, fieldwork and documentary research, and the collection of data; our technique was participant observation and semi-structured interviews. This thesis has as its general objective to analyze how to articulate, within the area of popular Catholicism, and more particularly in the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa, sociocultural changes occurring in society, gender relations and the dynamics of Catholicism. Emphasis will be given to the impacts of such articulation on the conceptualization of gender relations, to the core of the pilgrimage itself and beyond, to the everyday relationships of the women concerned; to the form of the inclusion of women in this context, how the pilgrim women are situated (are positioned), in relation to socio-cultural changes in progress, how pilgrim women understand the space of the pilgrimage, in relation to their daily domestic life, to the challenges faced by these subjects, in the sense that, at times, they approach or move away from gender identity, derived from patriarchal society, where the submission of women to men is a key feature. Based on the results of the interviews of the pilgrim women and on the theoretical framework as references, we concluded that the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa is a space for the social reproduction of the family and of the female gender identity, where a contrast is observed in the reframing of the role of and in the profile of the pilgrim women of Bom Jesus da Lapa, alternating between permanence and transformation of the gender identity arising from patriarchy. / Esta tese tem por objeto de estudo a mulher na Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, enfatizando as relações de gênero, analisando o espaço da romaria como reprodução social do ideário de família patriarcal e de identidade de gênero feminina. O cenário da Pesquisa é a Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, que se realiza há 323 anos, naquela cidade, localizada na região Oeste da Bahia. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são mulheres romeiras que se enquadram na faixa etária entre 50 e 70 anos de idade e participam, há mais de cinco anos consecutivos, da Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, pertencentes a cinco Estados brasileiros (Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Espírito Santo e Goiás) que registram um maior índice de participação nesse evento religioso. Utilizamos como metodologia a pesquisa bibliográfica, qualitativa, de campo e documental e na coleta de dados; aplicamos como técnica a observação participante e a entrevista semiestruturada. Esta tese tem por objetivo geral analisar como se articulam, no espaço do catolicismo popular, e mais particularmente no espaço da romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, as mudanças socioculturais em curso na sociedade, as relações de gênero e a própria dinâmica do catolicismo. Dar-se-á ênfase aos impactos de tal articulação nas concepções e relações de gênero, ao interno da própria romaria e para além dela, nas relações cotidianas das mulheres em questão; à forma de inserção das mulheres nesse contexto, como as mulheres romeiras se situam (posicionam) em relação às mudanças socioculturais em curso, como as mulheres romeiras percebem o espaço da romaria, em relação ao seu cotidiano doméstico; ao desafio que se coloca aos referidos sujeitos, no sentido de que elas em alguns momentos se aproximam ou se distanciam da identidade de gênero oriunda da sociedade patriarcal, onde a submissão da mulher ao homem é uma característica determinante. A partir das falas das romeiras entrevistadas e dos aportes teóricos utilizados, concluímos que a Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa é um espaço de reprodução social da família e a identidade de gênero feminina, observando-se um contraste na ressignificação do papel e no perfil da mulher romeira do Bom Jesus da Lapa, alternando entre a permanência e a transformação da identidade de gênero oriunda do patriarcalismo.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:44:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5219.pdf: 1587139 bytes, checksum: c69c073f6f2a315baca8307cec62f7cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-30 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / According field studies of discussions about gender, invisibility of the poor young girls has been a matter for public policy created for youth, but also involves discussions around their cultural manifestations and social participation. The academic scene alerts us to the information that as much the studies on youth as in studies of feminism, there is a large gap in relation to the female juvenile manifestations and further, that the references to them in scientific research takes as focus, in a restrictive manner, adolescence linked to the exercise of sexuality or pregnancy. Trying to deal with this invisibility, we concentrate on the quotidian and terms of life of young people living in a certain suburb, trying the understanding of what actually is being experienced by them, beyond the fact of the limitation of its circulation spaces and access to public equipments, in the direction of the contribution to the establishment of methodologies for intervention on social issues, in relation to this population group. In our professional action, mobilized us in the search for the reasons of the absence of these young people living in public spaces in the city of São Carlos (São Paulo), focusing in a Youth Center. Such mobilization resulted in this master degree research, dealing with an approach that includes the observation-action, depth interviews, in order to gather data to a mapping about who they are, what they think, what they do, what they like and how the young girls live in the suburbs urban. The work has evidenced that youth in question are, in their great majority, hampered in their personal statements. The cultural relations sexist, embodied in an important way in the dynamics of the illegal drug trade, in the men holders of the financial power, in the power of the influence and in the patriarchal system that remains in contemporary society have strongly shaped the future of these young people. Their dreams, desires, social participation and even their personality suffer with the assaults on female autonomy, remaining at some point in the late nineteenth century, before much of what we witnessed over the last century in relation to the rights of women. Our finding indicates that the investments in the social policies specific to this population has been insufficient and that their actions are fragmented and / or inadequate. We concluded that the needs are from several orders, the increased of the general and specific knowledge about this group until the public debate and the social positioning in relation to the guarantee of civil, social and human rights of young Brazilian girls, in order to expand their opportunities of participation and autonomy. / Conforme estudos do campo das discussões sobre gênero, a invisibilidade das jovens meninas pobres tem sido uma questão para as políticas públicas criadas para a juventude, mas envolve igualmente as discussões em torno de suas manifestações culturais e de sua participação social. A cena acadêmica nos alerta para a informação de que, tanto nos estudos sobre juventude quanto nos estudos sobre feminismo, existe uma grande lacuna no que diz respeito às manifestações femininas juvenis e que, ainda, as referências a elas nas pesquisas científicas toma como foco, de modo restritivo, a adolescência vinculada ao exercício da sexualidade ou à gravidez. Tentando lidar com essa invisibilidade, nos debruçamos sobre o cotidiano e os traços de vida de jovens moradoras de uma determinada periferia buscando a apreensão do que de fato está sendo por elas vivenciado, para além da realidade de limitação dos seus espaços de circulação e do acesso aos equipamentos públicos, na direção da contribuição da criação de metodologias de intervenção junto a problemáticas sociais, em relação a esse grupo populacional. Em nossa ação profissional, nos mobilizou a busca pelas razões das ausências dessas jovens nos espaços públicos de convivência na cidade de São Carlos (SP), com foco num Centro da Juventude. Tal mobilização resultou nesta pesquisa de mestrado, lidando com uma abordagem que abrangeu técnicas da observação-ação e entrevistas em profundidade, de forma a reunirmos dados para um mapeamento acerca de quem são, o que pensam, o que fazem, do que gostam e como vivem jovens meninas em periferias urbanas. O trabalho evidenciou que as jovens em questão são, em sua grande maioria, tolhidas em suas manifestações pessoais. As relações culturais machistas, encarnadas de forma importante nas dinâmicas do comércio ilegal de drogas, nos homens detentores do poder financeiro, no poder de influências e no sistema patriarcal que permanece na sociedade contemporânea têm conformado fortemente o futuro dessas jovens. Seus sonhos, desejos, sua participação social e até sua personalidade sofrem com as investidas contra a autonomia feminina, como que permanecendo em algum ponto no final do século XIX, anterior a muito do que assistimos ao longo do século passado no que concerne aos direitos das mulheres. Nossos dados nos indicam que os investimentos das políticas sociais específicas para esta população têm sido insuficientes e que suas ações são fragmentadas e/ou inadequadas. Concluímos que são de várias ordens as necessidades, do aumento dos conhecimentos gerais e específicos sobre esse grupo ao debate público e ao posicionamento social com relação à garantia de direitos civis, sociais e humanos de jovens meninas brasileiras, com vistas à ampliação de suas oportunidades de participação e autonomia.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-18T21:31:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 5 Thiago Carvalho Barbosa1.pdf: 344824 bytes, checksum: 8f6785f25d4a2030030cee55ce46bfed (MD5) Thiago Carvalho Barbosa2.pdf: 540735 bytes, checksum: 3b8e9da3f4f46a45ad1a59e6293ed424 (MD5) Thiago Carvalho Barbosa3.pdf: 657745 bytes, checksum: 7a64422afae7fc770bed6ad85edad25a (MD5) Thiago Carvalho Barbosa4.pdf: 2956074 bytes, checksum: c2521ac59772181da0649d2a188831f3 (MD5) Thiago Carvalho Barbosa5.pdf: 1515402 bytes, checksum: cf36647379a5e61293bfe231fa920449 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-18 / This research which involves Arts and History of Culture proposes a look back at the 1960 s. The setting is Brazil, politically disturbed and on the verge of a military coup which would depose President João Goulart (1919-1976) and establish a military regime that would rule until late 80 s. In this oppressive context we find Mônica, character of a cartoon series designed by Mauricio de Sousa starting in 1963. The little girl, who would gain international recognition, started as a secondary character in the comic strips featuring Cebolinha, another popular character by Sousa. In a few years Mônica would be taken to the top as Sousa a main character, which led to the gathering of a group of characters under the title of A Turma da Mônica (Mônica s Bunch). This research describes the beginning of Sousa a career and his characters with the purpose of getting acquainted with the first comic strips. Based on the British Cultural Studies, an intellectual movement dedicated to cultural analysis and discussion established after the Frankfurt School, we will demonstrate what is the involvement of selected midia with the context of creation, in order to demonstrate the relations of power between them. Mônica, the main character of this research is a girl who always overcomes conflicts by means of physical power and by such an attitude has always been portraited as violent by critics and readers. In this study we will demonstrate how the character resists to successive attempts from the other characters to convince her to be more feminine . The characteristics attributed to such a gender are fundamental to the discussion that aims at analyzing the cultural construction of male and female roles in the Brazilian society in the 1960 s. / Esta pesquisa que envolve os eixos de Artes e História da Cultura propõe um retorno à década de 1960. O cenário é o Brasil, conturbado politicamente e prestes a sofrer um golpe militar que deporia o presidente João Goulart (1919-1976), estabelecendo um regime militar que perduraria até o final dos anos 80. Neste contexto repressor temos Mônica, personagem de uma série de histórias em quadrinhos desenvolvidas por Mauricio de Sousa a partir de 1963. A garota que atingiria fama e reconhecimento internacional começou como coadjuvante nas pequenas tiras de Cebolinha, outro caractere popular de Mauricio. Em poucos anos Mônica seria elevada ao posto de principal criação de Sousa, fato que permitiu a reunião do elenco de personagens sob o titulo A Turma da Mônica . Nesta pesquisa percorreremos o início da carreira de Sousa e seus personagens a fim de conhecer suas primeiras tiras cômicas. Ao teor dos Estudos Culturais Britânicos, movimento de análise e discussão cultural posterior a Escola de Frankfurt, explicitaremos qual o envolvimento da mídia selecionada com o contexto de criação, afim de explicitar as relações de poder entre as mesmas. Mônica personagem central desta pesquisa é uma garota que sempre vence os conflitos através da força, por tal atitude foi constantemente caracterizada como violenta por críticos e leitores. Nesta pesquisa apresentaremos como a personagem resiste às sucessivas tentativas dos demais caracteres de convencê-la a ser mais feminina . As características atribuídas a tal gênero são imprescindíveis na discussão que objetiva analisar a construção cultural dos papéis feminino e masculino na sociedade brasileira na década de 1960.