The purpose of this study was to investigate the misconduct of learners in secondary schools in the Ntoane village. It served to determine the • extent to which teenage fall pregnant; • the intensity in which teachers tackle gender violence in schools; • the manner in which the parents’ culture and values are enforced by the teachers. Recommendations are made on how to overcome these barriers and to improve the level of misconduct. A literature study was carried out to gain an understanding of misconduct, and covered the following issues: • What is misconduct? • The causes of misconduct. • An overview of learner misconduct. • The origins of learner misconduct. • Manifestations of learner misconduct in the classroom. • The factors which cause learner misconduct. A qualitative research method was used in this research. The targeted population groups are teenagers in grades 9 and 10 in the Ntoane village. v Interviews were conducted at two schools in the Ntoane village where educators, the school governing bodies and members of the representative council of learners were interviewed. The findings were discussed at length to determine the research objectives. Conclusions were drawn after analysing these findings, and recommendations were formulated. / Education Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the misconduct of learners in secondary schools in the Ntoane village. It served to determine the • extent to which teenage fall pregnant; • the intensity in which teachers tackle gender violence in schools; • the manner in which the parents’ culture and values are enforced by the teachers. Recommendations are made on how to overcome these barriers and to improve the level of misconduct. A literature study was carried out to gain an understanding of misconduct, and covered the following issues: • What is misconduct? • The causes of misconduct. • An overview of learner misconduct. • The origins of learner misconduct. • Manifestations of learner misconduct in the classroom. • The factors which cause learner misconduct. A qualitative research method was used in this research. The targeted population groups are teenagers in grades 9 and 10 in the Ntoane village. v Interviews were conducted at two schools in the Ntoane village where educators, the school governing bodies and members of the representative council of learners were interviewed. The findings were discussed at length to determine the research objectives. Conclusions were drawn after analysing these findings, and recommendations were formulated. / Education Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)

PEREIRA, Maria Teresa Lisboa Nobre. Resistencias femininas e ação policial: (re)pensando a função social das delegacias da mulher. 2006. 273 f. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará,Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós- Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2006. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-01-10T14:54:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_TESE_MTLNPEREIRA.pdf: 1590299 bytes, checksum: 64f9411a42f1ad489741b4e512ec8642 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-01-11T15:14:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_TESE_MTLNPEREIRA.pdf: 1590299 bytes, checksum: 64f9411a42f1ad489741b4e512ec8642 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-01-11T15:14:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_TESE_MTLNPEREIRA.pdf: 1590299 bytes, checksum: 64f9411a42f1ad489741b4e512ec8642 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / This work identifies, describes and analyzes talks of women under situation of violence who denounce their aggressors to the police, at the Women’s Police Stations. Adopting conceptions about the power and the violence formulated by Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault I try to talk about the gender relations marked by the violence and escaping to the polarizations between dominator-man x dominated-woman. I defend that the women not only react to the violence by many different forms, but produce, through their resistance - passive and active - places of anti-domination, that sometimes can assume what I call "situational power". These resistance behaviors are revealed through quotidian tactics at the private life space and through strategies of publicizing at the public space, when they go to the Women’s Police Stations. The concepts of tactical actions and strategies are taken, respectively from Michel De Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu. The work used as research field the Sergipe State Police Stations for Woman Protection (DEPM). I try to describe and analyze routines, ritualized institutional practices, organizational culture traces, that circule on the field of intersection among the Civil Police, The Women’s Police Stations and the expectations of the women who look for these offices. I try to identify their demands starting from two specialties: the cases where women look for the legal criminalization of their aggressor and the cases when they go to theses stations looking for conciliation, mediation of the conflicts,guarantee of rights and protection. The methodology combines qualitative and quantitative techniques, and have as sources of information: 836 Occurrence Bulletins registered in the 1990s, twenty-one interviews with women denouncers, twelve interviews with police agents and commission agents and with six social movements’ representatives. I also use as sources two experiences of researchintervention, carried out by not policies institutions together with the Sergipe State Police Stations for Woman Protection, dedicated to police education, with whom I experienced two situations of participant observations: the first one developed by the Human Rights Commission of the Sergipe Federal University and second by the MUSA (Woman and Health - Group of Studies on Gender Research of the Bahia Federal University). The analysis is delimited by a temporal variable: before and after the creation of an Attendance Center for Vulnerable Groups, created in 2004, to which the Police Station of the Woman of Aracaju passed if to integrate. My interest falls again into particular on the constitution of the Nucleus of Mediation of Conflicts, that functions at the Women’s Police Stations. I defend that the formal adoption of the instrument of mediation in a police space implies in a revision of the social function of the Women’s Police Stations. This assumes to change the conception of the police activity as mainly investigative and repressive, and to consider that the actions of mediation, assistance and counseling developed by the Women’s Police Stations are affirmatively constituted as proper actions of the Police. / Este trabalho identifica, descreve e analisa narrativas de mulheres em situação de violência que denunciam seus agressores à Polícia, no espaço das Delegacias da Mulher. Adotando as teorizações sobre o poder e a violência formuladas por Hannah Arendt e Michel Foucault procuro discutir relações de gênero marcadas pela violência, escapando às polarizações entre homem-dominador x mulher dominada. Defendo que as mulheres não só reagem à violência de múltiplas formas, mas produzem, através de suas resistências – passivas e ativas – lugares de contra-dominação, que algumas vezes podem assumir a forma de um “poder situacional”. Essas resistências se manifestam através de táticas cotidianas protagonizadas no espaço da vida privada e de estratégias de publicização no espaço público, quando se dirigem às Delegacias da Mulher. Os conceitos de ações táticas e estratégias são tomados, respectivamente de Michel De Certeau e Pierre Bourdieu. O trabalho tem como campo de análise as Delegacias Especiais de Proteção à Mulher do Estado de Sergipe (DEPM). A análise aborda o funcionamento das Delegacias da Mulher em duas cidades sergipanas: Aracaju e Itabaiana, relacionando suas práticas organizacionais ao campo da Polícia Civil. Procuro descrever e analisar rotinas, práticas institucionais, traços da cultura organizacional, valores, crenças e lógicas que circulam no campo de interseção entre a Polícia Civil, as Delegacias da Mulher e as expectativas das mulheres dirigidas a esta unidade policial. Procuro identificar suas demandas a partir de duas especificidades: casos que as mulheres pretendem a criminalização legal do agressor e casos em que buscam as Delegacias da Mulher visando a conciliação, a mediação de conflitos, garantias de direitos e proteção. A metodologia combina as abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa, tendo como fontes: 836 Boletins de Ocorrência registrados na década de 90, vinte e uma entrevistas com mulheres denunciantes, doze entrevistas com agentes policiais e delegadas e com seis representantes de movimentos sociais. Considero também duas experiências de pesquisa-intervenção, realizadas por nstituições não policiais junto às DEPMs, voltadas à formação policial, com as quais tive contato, numa situação de observação participante: a primeira desenvolvida pela Comissão de Direitos Humanos da Universidade Federal de Sergipe e a segunda pelo MUSA (Mulher e Saúde/ Instituto de Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Federal da Bahia). A análise das práticas da DEPM de Aracaju é delimitada por uma variável temporal: antes e depois da criação de Centro de Atendimento a Grupos Vulneráveis, criado em 2004. Meu interesse recai sobre a constituição do Núcleo de Mediação de Conflitos, que funciona nesse complexo policial e atende à DEPM de Aracaju. Defendo que a adoção formal do instrumento de mediação num espaço policial implica uma revisão da função social das Delegacias da Mulher. Isso supõe superar a concepção da atividade policial como prioritariamente investigativa e repressiva, e considerar que as ações de mediação, assistência e aconselhamento desenvolvidas pelas Delegacias da Mulher ao longo do País se constituem afirmativamente como ações próprias do fazer policial.

Vi alla känner igen ordspråket “Borta bra men hemma bäst” men hur sant är det egentligen?  Turism har alltid funnits i någon form och kommer alltid att finnas i någon form. Som en konsekvens av globaliseringen under de senaste decennierna har länder runt om i världen kommit närmare än någonsin. Gränser är mer öppna än någonsin och i stort sett alla får och kan resa. Vissa upplever dock vissa resmål som farliga och skrämmande. Speciellt kvinnor. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka vilka faktorer som har störst påverkan när det kommer till vad som får kvinnor att känna sig trygga under sina resor. Vad har kvinnor för upplevelser av sina tidigare resor och vilka vanliga rädslor finns? Denna studie syftar till att söka svar på hur mycket kvinnors uppfattning om säkerhet väger upp i deras val av resmål, vilka faktorer som är viktigaste och vilka faktorer som gör att kvinnor avstår från en viss destination. Vidare är det av intresse för oss att i vår studie undersöka hur stor skillnad det är mellan äldre och yngre kvinnors val av resor. Studien bygger på ett frågeformulär samt litteraturanalys. Enkäten fick totalt 224 svar från svenska kvinnor i olika åldrar. Resultaten visar delade meningar om hur viktiga vissa faktorer är för säkerhetsuppfattning vid val av resmål. De tydligaste mönstren som resultaten tar fram är att kvinnor föredrar att resa i sällskap istället för ensamma. Dessutom är kvinnors största faktor när de väljer resmål bekvämlighet inte säkerhet, även om säkerhet fortfarande är en viktig faktor. Den mest påverkande faktorn som skapar den rädsla som kvinnor upplever är massmedier som tidningsartiklar och sociala medier. / There is a common Swedish saying that being abroad is good but at home is still always the best. Tourism has always existed in some form and is always going to exist in some form. As a consequence of the globalization of the last decades countries around the world have become closer than ever. Boarders are more open than ever before and pretty much everyone is allowed and capable to travel. However, some experience certain destinations as dangerous or scary. Especially females.  This study aims to research which factors have the biggest impact when it comes to what makes women feel safe during their travels. What do women have as an experience of their earlier travels and what common fears exist? This study aims to seek answers on how much women's perception of safety weighs up in their choice of destination, what factors are most important and what factors cause women to refrain from a particular destination. Furthermore it is of interest how big of a difference there is between older and younger women's choice of travel. The study is based on a questionnaire as well as literature analysis. The questionnaire got a total of 224 answers from Swedish women of different ages.  The results show divided opinions on just how important certain factors are for safety when choosing a destination. The most significant patterns that the results show is that women prefer to travel accompanied instead of alone. Furthermore, women's biggest factor when choosing a destination is comfort not safety, even though safety is still an important factor. The most influencing factor that creates the fear that women experience is mass media such as newspaper articles and social media.

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This paper sets out to evaluate the influence of Russia’s increasing levels of hegemonic masculinity upon the erosion of the nuclear taboo in relation to increased threatening rhetoric, military preparedness, targeting of nuclear facilities, and withdrawal from existing arms control legislation which indicates potential first-use employment of nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Utilizing a dual research methodology of comparative process tracing and critical discourse analysis, gender theory is applied to assess various critical junctures and political focal points that contributed to a dual-partite path dependency of increasing hegemonic masculinity, coupled with the feminized securitization of Ukraine, and retaliatory masculinity as performed via state-sponsored employment of conflict-related sexual violence and nuclear posturing against Ukraine. The alternative explanation of “Escalate to De-escalate” is critically investigated; however, the empirical analysis provided by this paper suggests that the lack of gender-sensitive evaluation within this explanation fails to adequately account for the effect of increasing domestic hegemonic masculinity within Russia. Increased perception of an existential threat against Russian masculinity was found to contribute to an increased dependency on nuclear weapons. Ultimately, this paper forwards a novel explanatory causal mechanism, providing one of the first analyses of the nuclear taboo in relation to a gender-sensitive lens.

Au cours des premières décennies du XXIe siècle, les écrivaines latino-américaines dépeignent des personnages féminins qui remettent en question la figure traditionnelle de la mère, remettant en cause simultanément le schéma traditionnel du lien entre mère et fille. Les approches de Judith Butler sur la performativité et le corps, ainsi que la méthode déconstructive de Jacques Derrida, sont à l’origine de cette analyse comparative des romans : Nueve lunas (Gabriela Wiener), La débil mental (Ariana Harwicz) et La hija única (Guadalupe Nettel). Butler soutient que la performativité du genre découle d’une construction soumise à une série de pratiques significatives qui ont perpétué un discours. Ce discours, instauré dans un contexte patriarcal, a été rendu opérationnel grâce à la reconnaissance de certaines normes qui ont historiquement placé les femmes dans une position subalterne. Dans ces romans, nous découvrons des mères qui remettent en question les normes établies par le discours dominant, offrant ainsi de nouvelles perspectives aux futures maternités de leurs filles. De même, les écrivains abordent la maternité au-delà du binôme de la bonne ou mauvaise mère, élargissant la chaîne des significations de la maternité et recensant des maternités alternatives. En dernier lieu, l’étude s’intéresse à la critique sociale que les écrivaines expriment dans leurs romans concernant l’application de la normativité imposée au corps maternel pour assurer une reproduction réussie, ainsi qu’à la violence associée à la défaillance de ces normativités. / In the early years of the 21st century, Latin American female writers engendered female characters that deconstruct the traditional model of the mother while questioning the traditional structure of the bond between mothers and daughters. Judith Butler’s approach to performativity and the body, together with Jacques Derrida’s method of deconstruction are the theoretical background to the comparative analysis of the novels Nueve lunas (Gabriela Wiener), La débil mental (Ariana Harwicz) y La hija única (Guadalupe Nettel). Butler argues that gender performativity stems from a construction anchored in a series of meaningful practices that have been perpetuated in the sociocultural discourse. This discourse, established under a patriarchal system, achieved its effect by naturalizing certain norms that have historically placed women in a subordinate position. In these novels, we find mothers who subvert the norms established by the dominant discourse, opening new perspectives to the future maternity of their daughters. Furthermore, the writers address motherhood beyond the binomial of good or bad mothers to expand the chain meaning of motherhood and take into account the present imprint of maternity. Finally, this study considers the social claim that the novels raise regarding the regulations that are imposed on the maternal body to ensure successful reproduction and the violence associated with the breach of those regulations. / Durante las primeras décadas del siglo XXI las escritoras latinoamericanas presentan en sus textos literarios personajes femeninos que deconstruyen la figura tradicional de la madre, cuestionando simultáneamente el esquema tradicional del vínculo entre madre e hija. Los planteamientos de Judith Butler sobre la performatividad y el cuerpo, así como el enfoque deconstructivo propuesto por Jacques Derrida sirven en este trabajo como marco para el análisis comparativo de las novelas Nueve lunas (Gabriela Wiener), La débil mental (Ariana Harwicz) y La hija única (Guadalupe Nettel). Butler argumenta que la performatividad de género resulta de una construcción sujeta a una serie de prácticas significativas que se han perpetuado en el discurso sociocultural. Este discurso, establecido bajo un sistema patriarcal, ha naturalizado ciertas normas que históricamente han situado a las mujeres en una posición subalterna. En las novelas del corpus encontramos madres que subvierten las normas establecidas por el discurso dominante, abriendo con ello nuevas perspectivas a las futuras maternidades de sus hijas. Asimismo, las escritoras abordan la maternidad más allá del binomio de la buena o mala madre, ampliando la cadena de significaciones de la maternidad y registrando maternidades alternativas. Por último, el trabajo considera la denuncia social que las novelas plantean con respecto al cumplimiento de la normativa impuesta sobre el cuerpo materno para garantizar una reproducción exitosa, así como con respecto a la violencia asociada al incumplimiento de dichas regulaciones.

This thesis investigates the prevalence of religious themes in the work of several prominent contemporary women writers—Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts, Alice Walker and A.L. Kennedy. Relying on Luce Irigaray’s recent theorisations of the religious and its relationship to feminine subjectivity, this research considers the subversive potential of engaging with religious discourse through literature, and contributes to burgeoning criticism of feminist revisionary writing. The novels analysed in this thesis show, often in violent detail, that the way the religious dimension has been conceptualised and articulated enforces negative views of female sexuality, justifies violence against the body, alienates women from autonomous creative expression and paralyses the development of a subjectivity in the feminine. Rather than looking at women’s religious revision primarily as a means of asserting female authority, as previous studies have done, I argue that these writers, in addition to critiquing patriarchal religion, articulate ways of being and knowing that subvert the binary logic that dominates Western religious discourse. Chapter I contextualises this research in Luce Irigaray’s theories and outlines existing work on feminist revisionist literature. The remaining chapters offer close readings of key novels in light of these theories: Chapter II examines Atwood’s interrogation of oppositional logic in religious discourse through her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Chapter III explores two novels by Roberts that expose the violence inherent in religious discourse and deconstruct the subjection of the (female) body to the (masculine) Word. Chapters IV and V analyse the fiction of Kennedy and Walker respectively, revealing how their novels confront the religious denigration of feminine sexuality and refigure the connection between eroticism and divinity. Evident in each of these fictional accounts is a forceful critique of religious discourse, as well as an attempt to more closely reconcile foundational religious oppositions between divinity and humanity, flesh and spirit, and body and Word.

From January 2016 until August 2021, at least 436 women or girls have been deliberately murdered in Spain by men. Non-intimate femicide (and, particularly, murder committed by complete strangers to the victim, to which this study refers as “stranger femicide”) has historically been, and still is, the most covered type of femicide in the media. This is also the case in the Spanish press, and more specifically, El País, the most read media outlet in the country. This thesis examines how El País framed Diana Quer’s case, the most high-profile, intensively covered femicide case in Spain in the past 5 years. It will also examine which ethical problems the reporting presented. From a feminist perspective and through a mixed-method approach of content analysis and frame analysis, this study examines 86 articles corresponding to the two informative peaks of Diana Quer’s case coverage. The periods go from August to October 2016, the first two months of her disappearance, and from December 2017 to January 2018, the 15 days following her killer’s arrest and crime confession. The findings reveal that the coverage in El País constructed a victimization iconography with DQ’s case that engendered cautionary tales and failed to address femicide as a social issue. The reporting also presented a series of critical ethical problems calling for a reformation of femicide reporting guidelines.