In this study, I use critical discourse analysis to analyze how queer women are represented in 34 English-language children’s picture books distributed in contemporary U.S. markets. I consider how these books include and exclude particular types of queer women characters and incorporate or omit specific queer women experiences. I argue that, in children's picture books, many queer women identities are “othered” through the binary oppositions of (i) lesbianism and motherhood and (ii) lesbianism and being a woman of color. In addition, (invisible) lesbianism in these picture books is still presented as an “issue.” The binary opposition of lesbianism and motherhood is created by making lesbianism invisible in children’s picture books by emphasizing mothering through the prominence of caregiving activities, limiting queer physical intimacy, limiting queer verbal intimacy, utilizing naming practices based on motherhood labels, and directing homophobia disproportionately at queer characters without children. The binary opposition of lesbianism and being a WOC is created by primarily featuring white queer characters. (Invisible) Lesbianism is still presented as an issue by the representation of two-mom families/queer relationships as “incomplete,” “unnatural,” “special,” “just the same as non-queer families and relationships,” and homonormativity. Informed by these results, I offer (i) a toolkit to evaluate the representation of queer women characters in picture books and (ii) a creative response to the queer women representation gaps in children’s literature.

<p>Women who operate small-scale farms and sell to small markets in Indiana may encounter certain obstacles and constraints due to self-employment in the traditionally male-dominated field of agriculture. Researchers have recognized the role of sustainable agriculture ideology in attracting women to these niche agricultural markets. Despite increasing opportunities for women in sustainable agriculture, research suggests that traditional gender roles are often maintained, manifesting itself through several obstacles (Pilgeram & Amos, 2015). Female agricultural entrepreneurs encounter obstacles including work-family balance, geographic barriers, access to physical resources, access to financial resources, access to places of information. Previous research indicates that female entrepreneurs have less access to human, social, and financial capital to support their business ventures (Powell & Eddleston, 2013). However, this study explored the feminine perspective and management styles which may serve as beneficial resources. </p> <p>The purpose of this study was to explore and describe existing obstacles encountered by female entrepreneurs in niche agricultural markets and their methods of building resilience in their business. Quantitative data was collected through an online survey of 62 agricultural entrepreneurs across the state of Indiana. Participants were asked questions pertaining to their business structure, resources, constraints, processes, achievements, and demographics. Several responses to open-ended questions were also collected and analyzed through open, axial coding. Study results include the diversity of the population, value of human capital resources, prioritization of quality products, significance of internal constraints, discrepancies in division of labor and women’s obstacles to access to social networks. A greater understanding of the obstacles encountered by women agricultural entrepreneurs can also provide valuable insight to Land-Grant University Extension, policymakers, and stakeholders in the Indiana agriculture industry. </p>

<p>The present study predicted that gender, relationship status, sexual orientation, and sexual debut would have an impact on number of sexual partners, which would then affect self-esteem, sexual satisfaction, and sexual self-efficacy. Through an online survey, participants anonymously responded to statements related to these concepts in order to test relationships among demographics and the number of sexual partners as well as among the number of sexual partners and self-esteem, sexual satisfaction, and sexual self-efficacy. Overall, men were much more influenced by their relationship status and number of sexual partners than women, implying that the men are still affected by the sexual double standard through the praise they receive for having many sexual partners.</p>

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Despite heightened efforts to increase gender parity, organizations in the technology industry are struggling to implement and enact Gender Diversity and Inclusion policies (GDIPs). This purpose of this dissertation was to enhance understandings of obstacles to policy enactment and unearth ways in which organizations can create more equitable work environments. Specifically, this project investigated how members of technology organizations construct knowledge about Gender Diversity and Inclusion policies through their personal experiences, attitudes and beliefs, and interactions with others within and external to their organization. Utilizing a critical-interpretivist and intersectional feminism as ontological and epistemological frameworks, this dissertation study draws from structurating activity theory (SAT; Canary, 2010) and theories of organizational identification (Scott, 2007) to explore issues of policy knowledge construction, implementation, and enactment. Completed in two phases,this dissertation employed a mixed-methods design. Phase One used DeVellis’ (2017) framework to develop a Gender Diversity and Inclusion policy attitude scale (GDIPAS) to evaluate how personal opinions about GDIPs and larger constructs like sexism, feminism, identification, and social desirability contribute to the policy knowledge construction process. Phase Two used a parallel analysis design to quantitatively (i.e., surveys) and qualitatively (i.e., interviews) investigate how members of tech-based organizations construct GDIP knowledge through intra- and extra-organizational interactions, as well as personal beliefs and attitudes (Teddlie & Tashakkori, 2009). Phase One resulted in five-factors underlying Gender Diversity and Inclusion policy attitude: perception of policy abuse, policy familiarity, perception of workforce gender inequity, policy support, and perception of organizational gender diversity. Results from Phase Two indicated that members of technology organizations interact within and across activity systems to construct knowledge about GDIPs through structural contradictions that (re)produce barriers to policy implementation and enactment.This project contributed to organizational communication theory by investigating the role of organizational identification in the policy knowledge construction process. Further, this dissertation extended SAT by identifying two new structural contradictions and a primary system-level contradiction, and by centralizing power in the investigation of policy knowledge construction. Methodologically, this dissertation offers a new policy attitude measure for scholars and practitioners. Finally, results of this project provide practical insights into barriers to policy implementation and enactment.

Este trabalho busca compreender as ações das mulheres indígenas Nasa da Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Norte del Cauca ACIN, que visam melhorar as condições e situações de vida das mulheres nos territórios de resguardo Çxhab Wala Kiwe. A partir da análise de relatos de mulheres que são líderes locais, dos documentos escritos produzidos pela própria organização e relatos etnográficos, tentamos descrever a maneira como surgiu o Programa Mujer da ACIN, como as mulheres vem enfrentando os desafios para tentar eliminar a violência contra elas (em particular a violência sexual), e a maneira como estabelecem relações com organizações de mulheres externas ao mundo indígena. Na análise, o processo de subjetivação das mulheres se choca com o contexto de guerra da região do norte do Cauca. É demonstrado como as mulheres através da história da organização indígena foram consolidando ferramentas e formas de organização no interior do mundo indígena não só para promover a visibilidade do trabalho das mulheres nas comunidades, como para exigir o fim da violência contra as mulheres e seus direitos particulares, promovendo a formação para a participação ativa nas ações coletivas da comunidade. Essas atividades são desenvolvidas a partir da posição comunitariamente assumida de não participação no conflito armado. Apesar disso, o estudo também mostra como a guerra termina por afetar essas comunidades. / This text aims to describe the actions which nasa indigenous women - they are part of the Asociación de Cabildo Indigenas del Norte del Cauca ACIN - does to improving situations and conditions of life of women in the reservation territories of the Çxhab Wala Kiwe. The analysis is based on different materials as follows: life story of women leaders, official documents produced by the organization, the literature review, and ethnographic account made during field work. With these materials, the text describes how Programa Mujer of ACIN emerged, facing the challenges of trying to eliminate the violence against women (in particular sexual violence). The description also shows the way these women establish relationships with other organizations outside the indigenous world through the program. In the analysis womans subjectivation processes come up with the context of war of north of Cauca. The description shows how women through the history of the indigenous organization has been consolidating tools and forms of organization within the indigenous world to promote the visibility of womens work demanding an end to the violence against women and particularly their rights. In this sense, one issue emphasized by them is the promotion and training for active participation in collective actions of the community. Despite the fact that these communities state their position of nonparticipation in the armed conflict, the analysis shows how war has an impact in these communities and these activities.

Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2018-02-07T16:47:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017 - Tarciso Manfrenatti de Souza Teixeira.pdf: 3974204 bytes, checksum: 8e67a847e6f7ea213dcf86c16762a2df (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-07T16:47:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017 - Tarciso Manfrenatti de Souza Teixeira.pdf: 3974204 bytes, checksum: 8e67a847e6f7ea213dcf86c16762a2df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-14 / I grew up writing private diaries. However, when I got my masters degree, I was invited to re-read my writings. As I re-read it I realized that I did not write about the racial issue. This absence became a highly relevant fact that made me realize and question myself about the powerful of schooling that taught me to be a man, or rather to be male, white, heterosexual and christian, fundamentally. So today, I visualize that a "pedagogy" circulates within different educational spaces (at school, in the family, in religious spaces, in leisure spaces, in the media, in the street, at work, etc.) that ends up (re)producing inequalities of race, gender and sexuality. In this perspective, social markers of race, gender and sexuality will be presented in a vision, intersectional, polymorphic and polyphonic. According to Narrative Studies; I conjugate the verb to write/search attached to the verb to exist. And so, I'm narrating what happens to me, I write what touches me as a minor people, bastard, always unfinished. / Eu cresci escrevendo di?rios ?ntimos. No entanto, quando cheguei ao mestrado, fui convidado a re-ler os meus escritos. ? medida que ia re-lendo percebi que n?o escrevia sobre a quest?o racial. Essa aus?ncia, tornou-se um dado altamente relevante que fez com que eu percebesse e me questionasse sobre os poderosos ?instrumentos de escolariza??o? que me ensinaram a ser homem, ou melhor, a ser macho, branco, heterossexual e crist?o, fundamentalmente. Ent?o, hoje, visualizo que no interior de diferentes espa?os educativos (na escola, na fam?lia, nos espa?os religiosos, nos espa?os de lazer, na m?dia, na rua, no trabalho, etc) circula uma ?pedagogia? que acaba por (re)produzir desigualdades de ra?a, g?nero e sexualidade. Nesta perspectiva, os marcadores sociais de ra?a, g?nero e sexualidade ser?o apresentados em uma vis?o, interseccional, polim?rfica e polif?nica. Baseando-me na ?pedagogia narrativa?; conjugo o verbo escrever/pesquisar atrelado ao verbo existir. E, assim, vou narrando aquilo que me acontece, escrevo o que me toca enquanto um povo menor, bastardo, sempre inacabado.

A principal aim of this research has been to establish the capacity of British Gangland film to articulate its era of production through the cinematic interpretation of contemporary concerns and anxieties in narratives relating to the criminal underworld. In order to do so, the study has concentrated on the analysis of space, gender and hierarchy within representative generic texts produced between 1945 and the present. The thesis is divided into three sections: the first offers a general overview of British Gangland film from the 65 years under discussion with the aim of identifying recurring generic patterns and motifs. The second and third sections are more specifically focused, their chapters examining the narrative significance and development of the male and the female protagonist respectively. Within the films under discussion, the relationship between these protagonists and their environment represents a fundamental generic component, resulting in an emphasis on space and place. Space within these narratives is inherently territorial, and thus irrevocably bound up with hierarchies of power. The predominantly urban locations in which the narratives are set represent a twilight world, a demi-monde, which is rarely neutral but dominated by the patriarchal order structuring the notion of ‘Gangland’. Such spaces are therefore inextricably linked with gender, hierarchy, and dynamic power relations. Whilst it would have been possible to explore each of these areas in isolation through specifically relevant theoretical perspectives, their interdependence is central to this study. Consequently, a holistic theoretical approach has facilitated analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the three key elements of space, gender and hierarchy and the processes involved in the generation of meaning: this has resulted in a reading of British Gangland film as cultural artefact, reflecting its circumstances of production.

Este trabalho busca compreender as ações das mulheres indígenas Nasa da Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Norte del Cauca ACIN, que visam melhorar as condições e situações de vida das mulheres nos territórios de resguardo Çxhab Wala Kiwe. A partir da análise de relatos de mulheres que são líderes locais, dos documentos escritos produzidos pela própria organização e relatos etnográficos, tentamos descrever a maneira como surgiu o Programa Mujer da ACIN, como as mulheres vem enfrentando os desafios para tentar eliminar a violência contra elas (em particular a violência sexual), e a maneira como estabelecem relações com organizações de mulheres externas ao mundo indígena. Na análise, o processo de subjetivação das mulheres se choca com o contexto de guerra da região do norte do Cauca. É demonstrado como as mulheres através da história da organização indígena foram consolidando ferramentas e formas de organização no interior do mundo indígena não só para promover a visibilidade do trabalho das mulheres nas comunidades, como para exigir o fim da violência contra as mulheres e seus direitos particulares, promovendo a formação para a participação ativa nas ações coletivas da comunidade. Essas atividades são desenvolvidas a partir da posição comunitariamente assumida de não participação no conflito armado. Apesar disso, o estudo também mostra como a guerra termina por afetar essas comunidades. / This text aims to describe the actions which nasa indigenous women - they are part of the Asociación de Cabildo Indigenas del Norte del Cauca ACIN - does to improving situations and conditions of life of women in the reservation territories of the Çxhab Wala Kiwe. The analysis is based on different materials as follows: life story of women leaders, official documents produced by the organization, the literature review, and ethnographic account made during field work. With these materials, the text describes how Programa Mujer of ACIN emerged, facing the challenges of trying to eliminate the violence against women (in particular sexual violence). The description also shows the way these women establish relationships with other organizations outside the indigenous world through the program. In the analysis womans subjectivation processes come up with the context of war of north of Cauca. The description shows how women through the history of the indigenous organization has been consolidating tools and forms of organization within the indigenous world to promote the visibility of womens work demanding an end to the violence against women and particularly their rights. In this sense, one issue emphasized by them is the promotion and training for active participation in collective actions of the community. Despite the fact that these communities state their position of nonparticipation in the armed conflict, the analysis shows how war has an impact in these communities and these activities.