Esta pesquisa teve como foco de análise representações de sexualidade presentes num Curso Normal noturno, de uma escola particular católica de Porto Alegre. Inserida no campo dos estudos feministas numa perspectiva pós-estruturalista, a pesquisa tomou como inspiração metodológica a etnografia e a produção de dados se deu a partir de observações sistemáticas ao longo de um semestre, análise documental e entrevistas individuais com as estudantes. A questão central da pesquisa - “Onde “está” a sexualidade num curso de formação de professoras?” - ampliou-se para a discussão de quando, onde e como a sexualidade entrava em cena naquele contexto escolar. Para tanto, foram criados três eixos analíticos que dizem do “currículo da sexualidade” neste curso: o “tempo” da sexualidade; o “espaço” da sexualidade e o “tom” da sexualidade. Esses três eixos se atravessam, e talvez seja possível afirmar que cada representação de sexualidade tem o seu tempo, o seu espaço e o seu tom para se fazer visível. Em relação ao primeiro eixo, enfatizo que, assim como é atribuído um “tempo da sexualidade” no curso (contando com uma aula específica sobre o tema), também na vida humana a sexualidade parece ter um tempo devido para aparecer, para se manifestar, para se desenvolver... Sobre o eixo “espaço da sexualidade”, volto o olhar para pelo menos dois “lugares”: os documentos da Escola e do Curso (mais especificamente o Projeto Educativo da Congregação da qual a escola faz parte, os Regimentos da Escola e do Curso Normal e os Planos de Estudos) e os espaços físicos onde questões de sexualidade puderam emergir – salientando que a sala de aula é um dentre outros lugares os quais desenham uma “geografia da sexualidade” naquele curso. E finalmente, sobre o “tom da sexualidade”, procuro mapear não só os discursos que foram utilizados, mas, principalmente, os modos como esses discursos se articulavam para dar conta das explicações, dos comentários, das recomendações e “dicas” em torno da sexualidade. O tom se refere, pois, ao como a sexualidade entrava em cena neste curso. / This research had as its main focus of analysis some sexual representations presented in a night course for Teachers’ Formation of a private Catholic school in Porto Alegre. Inserted in the field of feminist studies and in a post-structuralist perspective, the research had as its methodological inspiration the ethnography. The production of data was done through systematic observations during a term, documental analysis and individual interviews with the students. The core issue in this research - “Where is sexuality in a course to form teachers?” – was amplified to the discussion of when, where and how the sexuality started to become part of the course in that context. Three analytical axes were created in order to explain the “curriculum of sexuality” in this course: “time” for sexuality; “space” for sexuality and “tone” for sexuality. These three axes cross each other and it is possible to state that each representation of sexuality has its own time, space and tone to become apparent. In relation to the first axis, I emphasize that as it is given a “time for sexuality” in the course (being one specific class about the issue) the same happens in human life, the sexuality seems to have only one specific time to arise, to disclose, to develop... About the axis “space for sexuality”, I concentrate in at least two “places”: the School and Course documents (more specifically to the Educative Project of the Congregation which the school belongs to, the Internal Rules of the School and Teachers’ Formation Course and the Study Plans) and the physical spaces where the issues of sexuality could emerge – pointing out that the classroom is a place (among others) which draws the “geography of sexuality” in that course. Finally, about the “tone of sexuality”, I tried to map not only the speeches (informal talks) which were made, but also, the ways those speeches were articulated to favor their explanations, their comments, recommendations and “cues” concerning sexuality. The tone refers to how the sexuality comes on stage in the mentioned course.

A presente investigação inscreve-se nos campos dos Estudos de Gênero e dos Estudos Culturais que se aproximam dos referenciais pós-estruturalistas, apoiados na teorização de Michel Foucault. Examino que pedagogias financeiras para a infância se constituem na articulação dos discursos da Educação Matemática com os discursos do senso comum, produzindo modos de lidar com dinheiro que educam crianças urbanas inseridas em processos de escolarização contemporâneos. Analiso práticas culturais implicadas no uso do dinheiro, relatadas em diários e entrevistas de crianças que cursavam a quarta série e apresentadas como enredos de problemas escolares de duas coleções de livros didáticos de Matemática para os anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Descrevo uma discursividade sobre modos de gerenciar o dinheiro que circulam em várias instâncias culturais, especificamente nos conhecimentos matemáticos escolares. Buscando convergências, reiterações e rupturas entre os discursos veiculados nos materiais empíricos produzidos, e ainda problematizando os efeitos de uma educação financeira ativada por experts, argumento que a naturalização da posse de recursos financeiros e a invisibilidade da imprescindível necessidade dos mesmos na ação de comprar são elementos do campo discursivo analisado que, ao se articularem com a incitação ao consumo, produzem uma pedagogia financeira que apaga as diferenças e as desigualdades sociais existentes. Ainda questiono os atravessamentos de gênero que estão contidos nessas pedagogias que diferenciam meninos de meninas em seus modos de conseguir, gastar e guardar dinheiro, além de reforçar noções conflitantes de feminilidades e masculinidades. / This research appears within the fields of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies approaching post-structuralist references, supported by the theory of Michel Foucault. I examine which financial pedagogies for childhood are made on the articulation of Mathematics Education discourses with the common-sense discourse, producing ways to deal with money that educate urban children allocated in contemporary schooling processes. I analyze cultural practices involved in the use of money, reported in diaries and interviews of children who attended the fourth grade and presented as plots for school problems of two collections of Mathematics books for the early years of elementary school. I describe a discursivity about ways of managing money that travels in diverse cultural instances, specifically in the mathematical knowledge from school. Seeking similarities, repetitions and breaks between discourses conveyed through empirical materials produced, and even questioning the effects of financial education activated by experts, I argue that the naturalization of financial resources possession and the invisibility of their essential needs in the action of buying are elements of the discursive field analyzed, that, by relating with the encouragement to consume, produces a financial pedagogy that erases differences and social inequalities. I still question the gender crossings that are contained in these pedagogies that differentiate boys from girls in their ways of getting, spending and saving money, and enhance conflicting notions of femininity and masculinity.

Esse estudo, desenvolvido entre os anos de 2009 e 2011, buscou conhecer de que maneira se constrói a conjugalidade entre travestis e seus maridos. Sob uma perspectiva pedagógica investigou as tensões existentes entre o modelo heteronormativo de conjugalidade e esta outra forma de união. Na perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais a pesquisa propôs-se a compreender a aliança destes casais, a produção da masculinidade dos maridos e a sociabilidade vivida pelos pares. Essa investigação foi realizada em classes populares, e é do tipo qualitativo e etnográfico. Durante dois anos conviveu-se com os três casais que participaram do estudo. Foram feitas entrevistas, observações participantes e diários de campo. Foram utilizadas, também, narrativas e observações de outras duas pesquisas anteriores que contemplaram o mesmo campo. As entrevistas foram gravadas, transcritas e posteriormente analisadas a fim de observar os tensionamentos existentes na conjugalidade das travestis com seus maridos. A partir da análise de seus depoimentos, cotejados pela bibliografia de apoio, conclui-se que o modelo de conjugalidade e masculinidade hegemônicos tangencia a aliança entre a travesti e seu marido. A forma de união dos participantes do estudo apresenta ao mesmo tempo semelhanças e rupturas com este modelo. / This study done between the years 2009 and 2011 tried to know how to build the married between transvestites and their husbands. From a pedagogical perspective, it was investigated the tensions between the heteronormative model of married in this other form of union. From the perspective of Cultural Studies this research aimed to understand the alliance of these couples, the production of husband’s masculinity and couple’s sociability. This research was done in low income classes, is a qualitative and ethnographic study. For two years the three couples were listened and they answered interview. They also were observed. Stories and comments from two previous studies whith the same people were used. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed for to observe the tensions existing in the married of the transvestites and their husbands. From the analysis of the interviews, by supporting bibliography, it is concluded that the model of hegemonic masculinity and married is tangent to these couples. This form of married presents with that model similarities and ruptures.

Esta pesquisa teve como foco de análise representações de sexualidade presentes num Curso Normal noturno, de uma escola particular católica de Porto Alegre. Inserida no campo dos estudos feministas numa perspectiva pós-estruturalista, a pesquisa tomou como inspiração metodológica a etnografia e a produção de dados se deu a partir de observações sistemáticas ao longo de um semestre, análise documental e entrevistas individuais com as estudantes. A questão central da pesquisa - “Onde “está” a sexualidade num curso de formação de professoras?” - ampliou-se para a discussão de quando, onde e como a sexualidade entrava em cena naquele contexto escolar. Para tanto, foram criados três eixos analíticos que dizem do “currículo da sexualidade” neste curso: o “tempo” da sexualidade; o “espaço” da sexualidade e o “tom” da sexualidade. Esses três eixos se atravessam, e talvez seja possível afirmar que cada representação de sexualidade tem o seu tempo, o seu espaço e o seu tom para se fazer visível. Em relação ao primeiro eixo, enfatizo que, assim como é atribuído um “tempo da sexualidade” no curso (contando com uma aula específica sobre o tema), também na vida humana a sexualidade parece ter um tempo devido para aparecer, para se manifestar, para se desenvolver... Sobre o eixo “espaço da sexualidade”, volto o olhar para pelo menos dois “lugares”: os documentos da Escola e do Curso (mais especificamente o Projeto Educativo da Congregação da qual a escola faz parte, os Regimentos da Escola e do Curso Normal e os Planos de Estudos) e os espaços físicos onde questões de sexualidade puderam emergir – salientando que a sala de aula é um dentre outros lugares os quais desenham uma “geografia da sexualidade” naquele curso. E finalmente, sobre o “tom da sexualidade”, procuro mapear não só os discursos que foram utilizados, mas, principalmente, os modos como esses discursos se articulavam para dar conta das explicações, dos comentários, das recomendações e “dicas” em torno da sexualidade. O tom se refere, pois, ao como a sexualidade entrava em cena neste curso. / This research had as its main focus of analysis some sexual representations presented in a night course for Teachers’ Formation of a private Catholic school in Porto Alegre. Inserted in the field of feminist studies and in a post-structuralist perspective, the research had as its methodological inspiration the ethnography. The production of data was done through systematic observations during a term, documental analysis and individual interviews with the students. The core issue in this research - “Where is sexuality in a course to form teachers?” – was amplified to the discussion of when, where and how the sexuality started to become part of the course in that context. Three analytical axes were created in order to explain the “curriculum of sexuality” in this course: “time” for sexuality; “space” for sexuality and “tone” for sexuality. These three axes cross each other and it is possible to state that each representation of sexuality has its own time, space and tone to become apparent. In relation to the first axis, I emphasize that as it is given a “time for sexuality” in the course (being one specific class about the issue) the same happens in human life, the sexuality seems to have only one specific time to arise, to disclose, to develop... About the axis “space for sexuality”, I concentrate in at least two “places”: the School and Course documents (more specifically to the Educative Project of the Congregation which the school belongs to, the Internal Rules of the School and Teachers’ Formation Course and the Study Plans) and the physical spaces where the issues of sexuality could emerge – pointing out that the classroom is a place (among others) which draws the “geography of sexuality” in that course. Finally, about the “tone of sexuality”, I tried to map not only the speeches (informal talks) which were made, but also, the ways those speeches were articulated to favor their explanations, their comments, recommendations and “cues” concerning sexuality. The tone refers to how the sexuality comes on stage in the mentioned course.

A presente investigação inscreve-se nos campos dos Estudos de Gênero e dos Estudos Culturais que se aproximam dos referenciais pós-estruturalistas, apoiados na teorização de Michel Foucault. Examino que pedagogias financeiras para a infância se constituem na articulação dos discursos da Educação Matemática com os discursos do senso comum, produzindo modos de lidar com dinheiro que educam crianças urbanas inseridas em processos de escolarização contemporâneos. Analiso práticas culturais implicadas no uso do dinheiro, relatadas em diários e entrevistas de crianças que cursavam a quarta série e apresentadas como enredos de problemas escolares de duas coleções de livros didáticos de Matemática para os anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Descrevo uma discursividade sobre modos de gerenciar o dinheiro que circulam em várias instâncias culturais, especificamente nos conhecimentos matemáticos escolares. Buscando convergências, reiterações e rupturas entre os discursos veiculados nos materiais empíricos produzidos, e ainda problematizando os efeitos de uma educação financeira ativada por experts, argumento que a naturalização da posse de recursos financeiros e a invisibilidade da imprescindível necessidade dos mesmos na ação de comprar são elementos do campo discursivo analisado que, ao se articularem com a incitação ao consumo, produzem uma pedagogia financeira que apaga as diferenças e as desigualdades sociais existentes. Ainda questiono os atravessamentos de gênero que estão contidos nessas pedagogias que diferenciam meninos de meninas em seus modos de conseguir, gastar e guardar dinheiro, além de reforçar noções conflitantes de feminilidades e masculinidades. / This research appears within the fields of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies approaching post-structuralist references, supported by the theory of Michel Foucault. I examine which financial pedagogies for childhood are made on the articulation of Mathematics Education discourses with the common-sense discourse, producing ways to deal with money that educate urban children allocated in contemporary schooling processes. I analyze cultural practices involved in the use of money, reported in diaries and interviews of children who attended the fourth grade and presented as plots for school problems of two collections of Mathematics books for the early years of elementary school. I describe a discursivity about ways of managing money that travels in diverse cultural instances, specifically in the mathematical knowledge from school. Seeking similarities, repetitions and breaks between discourses conveyed through empirical materials produced, and even questioning the effects of financial education activated by experts, I argue that the naturalization of financial resources possession and the invisibility of their essential needs in the action of buying are elements of the discursive field analyzed, that, by relating with the encouragement to consume, produces a financial pedagogy that erases differences and social inequalities. I still question the gender crossings that are contained in these pedagogies that differentiate boys from girls in their ways of getting, spending and saving money, and enhance conflicting notions of femininity and masculinity.

A presente investigação inscreve-se nos campos dos Estudos de Gênero e dos Estudos Culturais que se aproximam dos referenciais pós-estruturalistas, apoiados na teorização de Michel Foucault. Examino que pedagogias financeiras para a infância se constituem na articulação dos discursos da Educação Matemática com os discursos do senso comum, produzindo modos de lidar com dinheiro que educam crianças urbanas inseridas em processos de escolarização contemporâneos. Analiso práticas culturais implicadas no uso do dinheiro, relatadas em diários e entrevistas de crianças que cursavam a quarta série e apresentadas como enredos de problemas escolares de duas coleções de livros didáticos de Matemática para os anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Descrevo uma discursividade sobre modos de gerenciar o dinheiro que circulam em várias instâncias culturais, especificamente nos conhecimentos matemáticos escolares. Buscando convergências, reiterações e rupturas entre os discursos veiculados nos materiais empíricos produzidos, e ainda problematizando os efeitos de uma educação financeira ativada por experts, argumento que a naturalização da posse de recursos financeiros e a invisibilidade da imprescindível necessidade dos mesmos na ação de comprar são elementos do campo discursivo analisado que, ao se articularem com a incitação ao consumo, produzem uma pedagogia financeira que apaga as diferenças e as desigualdades sociais existentes. Ainda questiono os atravessamentos de gênero que estão contidos nessas pedagogias que diferenciam meninos de meninas em seus modos de conseguir, gastar e guardar dinheiro, além de reforçar noções conflitantes de feminilidades e masculinidades. / This research appears within the fields of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies approaching post-structuralist references, supported by the theory of Michel Foucault. I examine which financial pedagogies for childhood are made on the articulation of Mathematics Education discourses with the common-sense discourse, producing ways to deal with money that educate urban children allocated in contemporary schooling processes. I analyze cultural practices involved in the use of money, reported in diaries and interviews of children who attended the fourth grade and presented as plots for school problems of two collections of Mathematics books for the early years of elementary school. I describe a discursivity about ways of managing money that travels in diverse cultural instances, specifically in the mathematical knowledge from school. Seeking similarities, repetitions and breaks between discourses conveyed through empirical materials produced, and even questioning the effects of financial education activated by experts, I argue that the naturalization of financial resources possession and the invisibility of their essential needs in the action of buying are elements of the discursive field analyzed, that, by relating with the encouragement to consume, produces a financial pedagogy that erases differences and social inequalities. I still question the gender crossings that are contained in these pedagogies that differentiate boys from girls in their ways of getting, spending and saving money, and enhance conflicting notions of femininity and masculinity.

Esse estudo, desenvolvido entre os anos de 2009 e 2011, buscou conhecer de que maneira se constrói a conjugalidade entre travestis e seus maridos. Sob uma perspectiva pedagógica investigou as tensões existentes entre o modelo heteronormativo de conjugalidade e esta outra forma de união. Na perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais a pesquisa propôs-se a compreender a aliança destes casais, a produção da masculinidade dos maridos e a sociabilidade vivida pelos pares. Essa investigação foi realizada em classes populares, e é do tipo qualitativo e etnográfico. Durante dois anos conviveu-se com os três casais que participaram do estudo. Foram feitas entrevistas, observações participantes e diários de campo. Foram utilizadas, também, narrativas e observações de outras duas pesquisas anteriores que contemplaram o mesmo campo. As entrevistas foram gravadas, transcritas e posteriormente analisadas a fim de observar os tensionamentos existentes na conjugalidade das travestis com seus maridos. A partir da análise de seus depoimentos, cotejados pela bibliografia de apoio, conclui-se que o modelo de conjugalidade e masculinidade hegemônicos tangencia a aliança entre a travesti e seu marido. A forma de união dos participantes do estudo apresenta ao mesmo tempo semelhanças e rupturas com este modelo. / This study done between the years 2009 and 2011 tried to know how to build the married between transvestites and their husbands. From a pedagogical perspective, it was investigated the tensions between the heteronormative model of married in this other form of union. From the perspective of Cultural Studies this research aimed to understand the alliance of these couples, the production of husband’s masculinity and couple’s sociability. This research was done in low income classes, is a qualitative and ethnographic study. For two years the three couples were listened and they answered interview. They also were observed. Stories and comments from two previous studies whith the same people were used. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed for to observe the tensions existing in the married of the transvestites and their husbands. From the analysis of the interviews, by supporting bibliography, it is concluded that the model of hegemonic masculinity and married is tangent to these couples. This form of married presents with that model similarities and ruptures.

One problem with the traditional marketing segmentation view of consumer markets is that it treats social categories as an ontology, which somehow becomes independent of its own members. It assumes that the self is required to adjust to its segment. In my research, I follow writers such as Hall (1996) who claim that consumer identity is not a reflection of a fixed, natural, state of being but a process of becoming. The meaning of social economic class, Britishness, religion, masculinity and so forth, are subject to continual change. Identity then becomes a ‘cut’ or a snapshot of unfolding meanings; it is a strategic positioning of the individual, which makes meaning possible. My primary research focuses on one cultural category - second generation British South Asian. This is a group of consumers who are required to negotiate with multiple discourses – local, global, past, present, future, western, eastern, religious, national, popular culture and more - and with many social and cultural categories - British society, South Asian community, county of origin, religion, professional identity and others. The mainstream literature takes an essentialist view when analysing this group treating ethnic minority consumers as acculturating individuals who hold a hyphenated identity and who have to balance pressures from two sides of the hyphen- South Asian and BritishIn my research I take inspiration from Hall (1996) and treat ethnicity in its de-totalised, or deconstructed forms, recognising ethnicity as a concept that cannot be thought of in the ‘old way’ as representing essential, discrete differences between groups. Ethnicity and race are conceptualised here as socially constructed, relationally and culturally locatedMy data collection strategy is designed to help participants (Sample size of 13) to explore the landscape of their self by eliciting life narratives and their constituent attachments. The data were collected in two stages. The initial phase is based on the collection of 2 collages one of self-identity and one of shopping experience. The objective of this phase was to give the participants an opportunity to explore and map the different discursive influences in their lives. The second stage uses a narrative interview where the collages were used as a guide for the structure of the conversation. The findings of this research confirm a picture of self-identity as a ‘Field of Discursivity’ (Laclau and Mouffe, 1985) where self-identity can be viewed as a field in which no one discourse can fully master the others. Consequently, ‘who one is’ becomes an open question, with a shifting answer depending upon the positions available between one's own and others' discursive practices and within those practices. This understanding is the foundation of my claim that traditional marketing discussion rests on a flawed assumption which renders segmentation strategy incompatible with current market reality.

Quality of care is conceptualised by professionals and in policy documents as: compliance with ‘best practice’ guidelines; improving satisfaction rates; fiscal efficiency; and ethical care. ‘Quality’ in palliative and supportive district nursing care has been conceptualised in all these ways. However, the empirical research in this area draws mostly on professionals’ and carers’ views with little research addressing patients’ views. With political rhetoric pushing for a ‘patient led’ NHS, research into how patients conceptualise quality in this area is necessary to both critique this rhetoric and/or facilitate its aims. Therefore, this research investigates patients’ and carers’ views on the quality of palliative and supportive district nursing care.Participants were recruited to an exploratory qualitative study resulting in a convenience sample of twenty six patients (all of district nursing caseloads) and thirteen carers. All participants were over eighteen, able to consent, lived in their own homes, were under the care of district nurses, and had palliative care needs. Eighteen participants had a cancer diagnosis, six had a non-malignant diagnosis, one had co-morbidities, and one participant did not disclosed their diagnosis. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with all participants, five participants were interviewed twice. Post-structuralist theories were used with discourse analysis techniques for the final analysis.The findings identify three of the most influential discourses in relation to the morality and quality of care: Firstly, ‘busyness’, and how its performance by district nurses masks patients’ and carers’ ability to critique care, instead producing a pseudo-quality which fixes patients and carers subjectivities. Secondly, ‘power/knowledge’ and the ways in which it prevents patients and carers accessing care which they need, and altering care to suit their needs. Thirdly, ‘the home’ and how it (re)forms district nursing care and district nursing care (re)forms the home; meaning that actions by district nurses must also consider the impact on the home as well as the patients and carers. In conclusion quality care may be produced by: ceasing to measure quality; involving patients and carers with commissioning and directing palliative and supportive care; supporting groups other than district nurses such as patients, carers and third parties to produce and distribute knowledge about district nursing care; increasing patients’ and carers’ ability to communicate with one another about their care.Further research may investigate: how patients and carers with palliative and supportive care needs may be involved in commissioning; the most appropriate wording and means to distribute knowledge about palliative and supportive district nursing care; ethnographic work to explore how district nursing and the home interact; more detailed theorisation of how the material and the discursive can be accounted for within post-structuralism.

The economic, demographic and social changes of the latter half of the C20th have influenced the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain (Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are likely to experience a lengthy period of 'postmaternity' (Sheriff and Weatherall, 2009) extending to over thirty years in many cases. This research considers the experience of this metaphorically entitled 'telescopic' cohort (Goldstein and Schlag, 1999). The major corpus of age related research assumes a linear developmental progression of life stages (Erikson, 1951, 1968; Gould, 1978; Levinson, 1978; Levinson, 1996; Klohnen et al., 1996; Miner-Rubinio, 2004). Drawing on life course theory (Elder, 1995; Runyan, 1982; Super, 1980) enables this research to explore how women may have changed assumptions about themselves and their expectations as the social world has changed around them, moreover offers an alternative to the essentialist, linear, deterministic models of ageing. This feminist poststructuralist examination of the experience of women at 'midlife' is divided into two parts; firstly the 'lived life' which examines demographic changes, and drawing on material from 'Jackie' magazine, considers discourses of femininity and the expectations for, and of, girls. The 'told story' is then explored using narrative interview material. How women 'story' their lives and their understanding of 'self' at midlife is examined within the context of the changing world and their ageing bodies. The research revealed that the experience of 'midlife' for this cohort of women is narrated as a time of change in social circumstances with some 'gains' and some 'losses', however it is not storied as a time of inevitable 'crisis'. Moreover despite the plethora of literature portraying the menopause as problematic, this was not supported by the interview material.