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This thesis explores the roles of gender, sexuality, and the body in the works of six Mozambican authors: poets José Craveirinha (1922-2003) and Noémia de Sousa (1926-2002), and prose fiction writers Lília Momplé (1935-), Paulina Chiziane (1955-), Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (1955-), and Suleiman Cassamo (1962-). Building primarily on the critical precedents set by Hilary Owen, Phillip Rothwell, and Ana Margarida Martins, the study aims to make an original contribution to the field of Mozambican cultural studies by proposing that the gendered body has a unique capacity for reappropriation as a means of resistance to oppressive power mechanisms, thanks to its consistently central position in Portuguese imperial and Mozambican postindependence discourses of nationhood. In addition, the thesis seeks to illustrate the value of intergenerational, inter-gendered, and inter-aesthetic author comparison, and an eclectic ‘toolbox’ approach to critical theory, for the production of innovative new perspectives on Mozambican literary output. Following the contextual scene-setting laid out in the Introduction, Chapter 1 explores constructs of masculinity in a selection of poems from José Craveirinha’s first published collection, Xigubo (1964), and compares them with Paulina Chiziane’s third novel O Sétimo Juramento (2000), using Judith Butler’s theories of compulsory heterosexuality and gender subversion (1990 and 1993). While Craveirinha’s work is posited as a counternarrative to Portuguese imperial emasculation of the black male subject that ultimately reproduces colonial gender structures, Chiziane’s novel is shown to engage with strategies of parody and realism in order to challenge such reproductions. Chapter 2 makes use of the concept of ‘disidentification,’ developed in the late twentieth century by U.S. feminists and queer theorists of colour, to compare selected poems from Noémia de Sousa’s Sangue Negro (1948-51) with prose fiction by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (1987 and 1990). Despite the authors’ aesthetic dissimilarities, their work is shown to share a successful commitment to the rejection of imposed femininities. Whereas de Sousa articulates this refusal via a ludic use of language, Khosa roots his narratives of disidentification in grotesque gendered corporealities. Chapter 3 compares novellas and short stories by Lília Momplé (1988, 1995, and 1997) and Suleiman Cassamo (1989 and 2000), examining the authors’ uses of the (dis)embodied states of suicidality, hunger, and ghostliness. Making use of Achille Mbembe’s (2001 and 2003) postcolonial reworkings of Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics (1976), this final chapter seeks to understand the ways in which the authors exploit imperial and postindependence instrumentalisations of the Mozambican body as a means of reasserting subjectivity and selfhood in the face of massification. Throughout the study, emphasis is placed on the often concealed and latent nature of gendered resistance, which remains a persistent feature of Mozambican literary output despite the relative intransigence of sexual politics in the country. By centring the body in their aesthetically diverse works, writers from Mozambique demonstrate the value of gendered resistance not only as an end in itself, but also as a means of accessing wider subversive discourses and gestures.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:54:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSENILDA TRINDADE DA COSTA.pdf: 806051 bytes, checksum: df6b2eedfc0f8105eadc11e55e037d4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-10 / The aim of this work was to investigate the connection between school, gender and race social relations in the constitution of young black girls in the process of schooling in young and adult education in a public school in Goiania. The dissertation named - Young black girls in the process of schooling in young and adult education- is an academic production of a research field of Education, Society and Culture of the post-graduation program of Catolica University of Goias (UCG). This work aimed to investigate young black girls, the mechanisms of insertion in the schooling process and the meanings that they attribute to school and work. For this purpose, it was carried out a bibliographic and field research. The technical instruments used in the investigation were: a questionnaire, observation and recorded interviews with six female young people who aged between 14 to 25 years old, be a Regiao Leste de Goiania ( East Region) resident, be enrolled in young and adult education program and be black. From forty-seven students who answered the questionnaire, six of them, who considered themselves being black, were interviewed. The data and the obtained information as well as researches and theoretical studies in the field of youth, gender and race, specially those focused on young and adult education, provided important aspects regarding the condition and the situation of young black girls. In the results, the research allowed us to realize the socio-cultural dynamics of African girls as well as the significance of the school and the sense that they Arbues the unionists and the family, enabled us also some issues peculiar to the female condition, which showed that young black still have little access to schooling and, mostly, are in the informal labor market, particularly in domestic activities. The school is among the expectations and concerns of young black women as the value, necessity, duty or even search for acquisition of family autonomy and ability to ensure survival. / O propósito deste trabalho foi investigar os vínculos entre escola, relações sociais de gênero e raça na constituição de jovens negras em processo de escolarização, em uma escola da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Goiânia, na modalidade de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA). A dissertação de mestrado denominada Jovens negras em processo de escolarização na EJA insere-se na produção da linha de pesquisa Educação, Sociedade e Cultura do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação da Universidade Católica de Goiás (UCG). Pretendeu-se investigar quem são as jovens negras, quais os mecanismos de inserção na educação escolarizada e os sentidos que atribuem à escola e ao trabalho. Para essa finalidade, foram realizadas pesquisa bibliográfica e de campo. Os instrumentos técnicos utilizados na investigação foram questionário, observação com registro de campo e entrevista realizada com recurso de gravação, com seis jovens do sexo feminino. Os critérios para a escolha das entrevistadas foram: faixa etária entre 15 e 24 anos, ser negra, moradora da Região Leste de Goiânia, estudante da EJA regularmente matriculada. Foram aplicados 47 questionários, e posteriormente realizadas seis entrevistas aprofundadas com as seis jovens alunas negras, considerando os critérios de autodeclaração racial indicada nos questionários. Os dados e as informações obtidas em confronto sistemático com pesquisas e estudos teóricos que têm como temática juventude, gênero e raça, particularmente aqueles com recortes no campo da EJA, possibilitaram apreender aspectos importantes das condições e situações juvenis das jovens negras. Quanto aos resultados, a pesquisa possibilitou perceber a dinâmica sócio-cultural das jovens negras, assim como o significado da escola e o sentido que elas arbuem a esola e a familia, permitiu perceber também algumas questões peculiares à condição feminina, o que revelou que as jovens negras ainda têm pouco acesso à escolarização e, em sua maioria, encontram-se no mercado informal de trabalho, particularmente em atividades domésticas. A escola figura entre as expectativas e preocupações das jovens negras como valor, necessidade, direito ou mesmo como busca de aquisição de autonomia familiar e possibilidade para garantir a sobrevivência.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2008. / Vita. Advisor : K. Dian Kriz. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 328-356).

This thesis examines the experiences and interpretations of place of immigrant women in Kingston and Peterborough, Ontario. Immigrant women in smaller Canadian cities contend with a varied and unique set of circumstances that are specific to their geographic positioning. Kingston and Peterborough, with populations of under 150,000 residents, are cities with particular racial discourses. Racialized discourses in Kingston and Peterborough identify each of these places as white cities. As a result, racialized inhabitants who reside in these cities are subsequently rendered invisible or out of place. Participants of my research, most of whom are racialized visible minorities, have all had to contend with oppressive effects of negotiating a white, and oftentimes unwelcoming landscape. There are three main objectives to my research. First, my desire was to learn about immigrant women’s lived realities and to better understand how the experience of migration and racialization had affected their lives. Second, I wanted to facilitate opportunities for women to share their stories with each other in the hopes of perhaps creating the types of learning experiences that would empower participants. Facilitating social interactions in which women could voice their experiences and share their emotional geographies became the most meaningful aspect of this research project at the level of the individual. Finally, I wanted our collaborative research experience to reach the wider public with the intention of creating transformative social change. The voices of immigrant women in smaller cities are often ignored or overlooked, and this gap in knowledge, I believed, was in need of exploring. Previous studies with immigrant women have focused primarily on immigrant women who live in larger Canadian cities. Little research has been directed at smaller cities such as Kingston and Peterborough and my thesis seeks to begin to remedy this oversight. / Thesis (Master, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2008-11-24 16:07:56.728

A rampant supposition exists that the judicial nominations of females are less successful due to the nominee’s gender (Martinek 2002). It is thus paramount to further investigate empirically whether individual nominee characteristics, such as gender, inhibit the nominee’s possibility of obtaining Senate confirmation. I empirically explore this conjecture in two distinct ways. First, I employ a difference in means test to determine whether women are confirmed to the District Court at a lower rate, on average, than are men. Subsequently, I test the hypothesis using a logistic regression that examines the influence of gender and the interaction of gender and race on the likelihood of confirmation, while controlling for other factors. Aiming to contribute to previous scholarship by providing an updated empirical analysis, I offer an update to Wendy Martinek’s original analysis of judicial confirmations by using the Lower Federal Court Confirmation Database to examine whether the influences of gender, race and their interaction on confirmation dynamics vary by partisan control. Having found the effect that nonwhite women are less likely to be confirmed by a GOP Senate than white males, I examine whether gender and race are the key factors or whether the relationship may instead be driven by ideology. Despite popular belief, the analysis of the data is not supportive of an extensive gender gap and undermines the claim that gender alone is an imperative factor inhibiting women from obtaining a successful confirmation. However, the empirical results are supportive of the hypothesis that racial minority females are less likely to be confirmed by a GOP controlled Senate than their white female and male counterparts.

Using DuBoisian Phenomenology, a holistic methodological approach, this thesis examines race and gender in the context of DuBois' seminal essay "The Damnation of Women". "The Damnation of Women" demarks the emergence of a new dialectic and practical approach to the liberation of humanity. To that end, this study is heavily undergirded by DuBoisian scholarship. Inevitably, this research shows the connections between race, gender, the dialectic and the African Worldview to reveal the common through line of DuBoisian philosophy. / African American Studies

The series Adam Ruins Everything (ARE) provides an opportunity to contemplate White, hipster masculinity and its professed progressivism in U.S. culture. As seen in ARE, hipster masculinity claims—in part—to possess an enlightened social politic, challenging sexism, racism, and heterosexism, yet the figuration of the White, cisgender-male hipster we get seemingly adopts feminist positions as means to insulate and expand his own social privilege. Using rhetorical strategies to win debates against cultural hegemony, the hipster of ARE becomes a superior masculinity, a trusted voice to guide and liberate White women and people of color, centering himself as the source of a singular truth. The essay provides the opportunity to consider ongoing tensions and ironies between men/masculinity and feminism.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-205).