Submitted by Maria Medeiros (maria.dilva1@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-07-26T13:38:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RAFAELLA DOS SANTOS PORFÍRIO - DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGCS) 2018.pdf: 1134284 bytes, checksum: 7062032f58ac824a086e6e788fae5c9f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-26T13:38:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RAFAELLA DOS SANTOS PORFÍRIO - DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGCS) 2018.pdf: 1134284 bytes, checksum: 7062032f58ac824a086e6e788fae5c9f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-22 / Capes / Este estudo tem como principal objetivo a investigação da complexidade dos códigos de identificação compartilhados a partir de sociabilidades estabelecidas por mulheres lésbicas em um bar de Campina Grande, interior da Paraíba. O estabelecimento em questão, chamado Cantinho JJ, é hoje o único bar da cidade de público majoritariamente composto por lésbicas. Sua história é também inspirada por um circuito lesbiano que existiu entre bares em meados da década de 1970 e 1990 no município, brevemente apresentado neste escrito. As problematizações e conceitos que ensejam nossas reflexões acerca das questões relativas às limitações das categorias identitárias, experiências e sexualidades de nossas interlocutoras partem das noções construídas discursivamente concernentes à produção de verdades sobre o sexo e da determinação da heteronormatividade como regime político, que excede o âmbito das relações sexuais e de gênero. Buscamos apreender em que medida as interlocutoras desse trabalho subjetivam, subvertem e reiteram os ditames da heteronorma. Para tanto, nos ancoramos em provocações de, dentre outros autores, Michel Foucault e Judith Butler. A fim de refletir sobre os espaços abordados e observados no trabalho de campo recorremos aos conceitos de pedaço, trajeto e circuito, cunhados pelo antropólogo José G. C. Magnani. Os dados foram obtidos a partir das interações proporcionadas por observações participantes no Cantinho JJ, registradas em diário de campo, bem como por meio de entrevistas, que, entre outras coisas, apontam, simultaneamente, diversas aproximações e distanciamentos com elocuções teóricas e ativistas, sobretudo no que diz respeito às concepções de identidade e visibilidade. A partir da pesquisa e análise realizadas inferimos que a maneira como o grupo estudado lida com a sexualidade e a visibilidade, diverge, em termos reivindicatórios, dos discursos de alguns lesbofeminismos. Além disso, percebemos as subversões pelas interlocutoras engendradas dentro de contextos inevitavelmente contraditórios, de modo que transgridem os constructos da heterossexualidade e reiteram ditames da heteronormatividade, muitas vezes, em um mesmo movimento. / This study has as main objective the investigation of the complexity of codes of identification and sociabilities established by lesbian women in a bar in the city of Campina Grande, interior of Paraíba. The establishment in question, called Cantinho JJ, is today the only public bar mainly composed by lesbians in the city. Its history is also inspired by a lesbian circuit that existed between bars in the mid-1970s and 1990s in the municipality, briefly presented in this writing. The problematizations and concepts that give rise to our reflections on the questions related to the limitations of the identity categories, experiences and sexualities of our interlocutors are based on discursively constructed notions about the production of truths about sex and the determination of heteronormativity as a political regime that goes beyond the scope of sexual and gender relations. We seek to understand to what extent the interlocutors of this work subjectivate, subvert and reiterate the dictates of “straight” normativity. To that end, we anchored ourselves in provocations by, among others, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. In order to reflect on the spaces covered and observed in the field work, we used the concepts of piece, path and circuit, coined by the Brazilian anthropologist José G. C. Magnani. The data were obtained from the interactions provided by the participant observation in Cantinho JJ, recorded in field diary, as well as through interviews, which, among other things, point simultaneously to different approaches and distances with theoretical and activist utterances, especially with regard to conceptions of identity and visibility. From the research and analysis carried out, we infer that the way in which the group studied deals with sexuality and visibility, diverges, in terms of claim, from the discourses of some lesbofeminismos. In addition, we perceive subversions by interlocutors engendered within inevitably contradictory contexts, so that they transgress the constructs of heterosexuality and reiterate the dictates of heteronormativity, often in the same movement.

This work has as main goal to analyze how the thematic areas of the body, gender and sexuality are being introduced in the formative practices of degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology in Sergipe - IFS/Campus Aracaju. A methodological proposal from the post-critical perspective was built, leaving the normative research and aiming to show that the social phenomena are multiple and heterogeneous. The instruments used were the documental analysis of the Institutional Pedagogical Political Project (IPPP) and Pedagogical Projects of the Courses (PPC) for degrees in Mathematics and Chemistry of IFS, a semi structured interview with the professor at the discipline of Education and Diversity and Focus Group, with the participation of five undergraduate students from the last year of courses. As results, it was possible to infer that the official documents of the degrees expose positive and negative aspects. As a positive point, it offers a discipline with the theme of diversity and also a theoretical concept that presents notions of gender inequalities. And as negative aspect, the silence regarding the normalization of bodies and sexualities is highlighted. Regarding the representations of the students, it was found that are crossed by medical, biological and religious discourses, which are pervaded by heteronormativity, strengthening the dichotomous view of body, gender and sexuality, but also conceptions marked by contradictions and upheavals. It was evident that had no contact with the subject during the degree course, in an official way, as content, debates and issues, but the curriculum of these degrees is not exempted from the issue because it is crossed, in a naturalized and silently way, by normative speeches about gender and sexuality, binary, homophobic discourses, which bring a dichotomous logic of genres. And that these future teachers, for not having discussions about the theme in the initial training, will lead possibly to the teaching practice the reproduction of sexist knowledge and gendered curriculum. / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo geral analisar como as temáticas de corpo, gênero e sexualidades estão sendo introduzidas nas práticas formativas das licenciaturas de Química e Matemática do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Sergipe- IFS/Campus Aracaju. Foi construída uma proposta metodológica organizada a partir da perspectiva pós-crítica, abandonando o caráter normativo da pesquisa e buscando mostrar que os fenômenos sociais são múltiplos e heterogêneos. Os instrumentos utilizados foram a análise documental do Projeto Político Pedagógico Institucional (PPPI) e Projetos Pedagógicos dos Cursos (PPC) de licenciaturas em Matemática e Química do IFS, uma entrevista semiestruturada com a Professora da disciplina Educação e Diversidade e Grupo Focal, com a participação de cinco licenciandos/as do último ano dos cursos. Como resultados pôde-se depreender que os documentos oficiais das licenciaturas expõem positividades e negatividades. Como ponto positivo apresenta uma disciplina com a temática da diversidade e também uma conceituação teórica que apresenta noções das desigualdades de gênero. E como ponto negativo aponta-se o silenciamento quanto à normalização dos corpos e das sexualidades. Quanto às representações dos/as estudantes verificou-se que estão atravessadas pelos discursos médico, biológico, religioso, que são permeados pela heteronormatividade, reforçando a visão dicotômica de corpo, gênero e sexualidades, mas também concepções marcadas por contradições e subversões. Ficou evidente que não tiveram contato com a temática no curso de licenciatura, de forma oficial, como conteúdos, debates e questões, mas o currículo dessas licenciaturas não está isento da temática, pois está atravessado, de uma maneira naturalizada e silenciosa, pelos discursos normatizantes de gênero e sexualidade, discursos binários, homofóbicos, que trazem em seu bojo uma lógica dicotômica dos gêneros. E que esses futuros/as professores/as, por não terem discussões sobre a temática na formação inicial, levarão, possivelmente, para a prática docente a reprodução do saber sexista e do currículo generificado.

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Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-07T15:08:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 denismaurorodriguesdesouza.pdf: 726533 bytes, checksum: 811c08c4a4526db08bd4b870f831d8d8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-04-24T04:01:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 denismaurorodriguesdesouza.pdf: 726533 bytes, checksum: 811c08c4a4526db08bd4b870f831d8d8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-24T04:01:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 denismaurorodriguesdesouza.pdf: 726533 bytes, checksum: 811c08c4a4526db08bd4b870f831d8d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-04 / Pensando na construção discursiva dos sujeitos e sua relação com autoconhecimento, prazeres e descobertas, proponho-me a questionar: que processos de subjetivação, relações de gêneros e sexualidade estão presentes nas aulas de Educação Física, mantendo um diálogo entre a formação docente e a prática nas escolas através da disciplina de Estágio Supervisionado da Licenciatura. Trago a inspiração em Michel Foucault como ferramenta para questionar e discutir os saberes me aproximando da perspectiva pósestruturalista em que os discursos são entendidos como construção histórica e social. Meu interesse são os saberes a respeito das condições de se formar professor em um processo de estágio em que a construção de sujeito está implicada nas aprendizagens experimentadas na trajetória social e histórica. Problematizo questões de gênero e sexualidade para a formação do professor de Educação Física e ações nas escolas. Aponto elementos para pensar o saber docente pluralizado, discutindo o desenvolvimento do professor, tanto pessoal quanto profissional. Para coleta de dados da pesquisa foram feitas observações, relatórios e diários de campo como focos de investigação tanto nas aulas da disciplina de Estágio quanto nas práticas das escolas, preocupando com aquilo que se constrói nos discursos da escola e nos bancos da universidade para as questões de gênero e sexualidade. Neste sentido, um ponto que se destacou foi o investimento nas problematizações e interrogações no processo de formação, o que tirou os estagiários dos lugares conhecidos em que a formação no Estágio está associada às certezas. A pesquisa pretende contribuir para o caminho reflexivo da educação de forma a ampliar os sentidos de subjetivações, gênero e sexualidade na formação docente e suas relações com as escolas. / Thinking about the discursive construction of the subject and its relationship with self, pleasures and discoveries, I propose the question: what processes of subjectivity, gender relations and sexuality are present in physical education classes, maintaining a dialogue between teacher education and practice in schools through the discipline of Supervised BSc. I bring the inspiration for Michel Foucault as a tool to question and discuss the knowledge of me approaching post-structuralist perspective in which the discourses are understood as social and historical construction. My interest is the knowledge about the conditions graduating teacher in a process stage in the construction of subject is involved in the learning experienced in social and historical trajectory. I discuss issues of gender and sexuality to the formation of a physical education teacher and actions in schools. I point elements to think about the teaching knowledge pluralized, discussing teacher development, both personal and professional. For data collection the survey observations were made, and daily field reports as foci of research both in lessons of discipline Internship practices as schools, concerned with what is built in the discourses of school and on the banks of the university to the issues gender and sexuality. In this sense, a point highlighted was the investment in contextualizing and questions in the process of training, the trainees who took the known places where the training stage is associated with certainties. The research aims to contribute to the reflective path of education in order to increase the sense of subjectivities, gender and sexuality in teacher education and its relationships with schools.

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le champ de la géographie des sexualités et contribue plus précisément au champ des géographies queers. Elle étudie la manière dont sont pensés les lieux queers en commençant par les définir, explorant la manière dont ils s’organisent de manière rhizomatique. Les personnes queers créent des lieux à travers des constellations de personnes qui se regroupent autour d’un rapport spécifique au genre et à la sexualité ainsi qu’autour d’un discours politique queer. Après avoir fait l’archéologie de ces milieux, une étude sera menée sur la violence que vivent les personnes queers dans l’espace public jusque dans les espaces privés. La violence systémique est décrite par l’analyse des rapports de domination et des normes. Les violences intracommunautaires sont ensuite étudiées. L’auteur.e propose finalement une critique des espaces queers sécurisés (safe space) pour proposer une autre conception des lieux par la construction d’espaces bienveillants. La méthodologie de la thèse est fondée sur l’observation participante, l’auto-ethnographie ainsi qu’un questionnaire et des entretiens venant compléter les sources. Un accent a été mis sur la réflexivité de la recherche, notamment sur le travail émotionnel que doit faire le chercheur.e face à ce type de terrain. / This thesis is a contribution to the geographies of sexualities and more specifically to queer geographies. It first seeks to understand how queer places are created by the many ways they are defined, though of, and organized in their rhizomatic pattern. Self-defined queer people have indeed a tendency to create places through the gathering of an array of persons who are connected by a particular relationship to gender, sexuality, as well as by the political component of the queer discourse. Focusing next on the “milieux de vie” that emerged from this loose network of places, the research looks at the systematic violence exerted against queer people in the public and private space. This phenomenon is seen and explained through a set of norms and domination patterns occurring at different levels and scales in society. Violence within the communities is finally studied. The author concludes in examining and in offering a critic of the concept of safe space, which lay the ground for the proposal of the construction of espaces bienveillants (derived from the concept of brave place). The study was conducted through participant observations, auto-ethnographic method, on-line surveys and direct conversations. Reflexivity was at the center of the field work, the author insists most notably on the emotional work researcher faces in this type of research.

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Seigneur Dildoe, as this dissertation will contend, was a fixture in Restoration literature and culture (1660-1700). But what was his provenance, by what means did he travel, and why did he come? This dissertation provides a literary history of the fascinating and highly irreverent dildo satire tradition, tracing the dildo satire’s long and winding progress from antiquity to Restoration England, where the tradition reached its early modern zenith. Adding breadth, context, and texture to existing treatments of the trope’s political and sexual potency, this dissertation investigates the dildo satire’s roots in both Greek comedy (Aristophanes, Herodas) and Latin invective (Martial, Juvenal), its influential association in early modern Italy with Catholicism and monastic life (Aretino), and its introduction in early modern England (Nashe), where it cropped up in the works of a surprising number of literary giants (Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Marvell). In Restoration England, we find in the satiric dildos of Butler, Rochester, and the contextually rich “Seigneur Dildoe” articulations of a dildo gone viral: the mock-heroic Seigneur deployed as a politically central motif symptomatic of its society’s acute patriarchal fissures. Throughout I argue that the dildo satire’s longevity is due not to a uniformity of purpose or signification (misogynist, anti-Catholic, emasculating, or otherwise), but to its innate versatility and ambiguity as a fugitive sexual and political figure. I also argue that what does in fact unite the satiric dildo’s variety of contingent ends, against what has been assumed in the scholarship, is its status as a markedly anti-Phallic figure. / Graduate / 2018-01-09 / 0401 / 0733 / missmenno.sf@gmail.com

La théorie de l’intersectionnalité issue du « Black feminism » permet de concevoir les expériences vécues de la domination par les personnages métis comme intersectionnelles ; s’y mêlent inextricablement des rapports de pouvoir fondés sur la race, le sexe et la classe. Incarnation de relations interraciales perverties par des relations de pouvoir entre peuples dominants et dominés, le personnage métis est interprété par un entourage qui tente de le subsumer à des catégories- raciales et sexuelles- prédéfinies. C’est à cette crispation de la pensée et à cette cécité partagée que nous nous intéressons.Mots-clés : études postcoloniales, genre/gender ; sexualités ; théorie queer ; métissage ; identité ; approche intersectionnelle. / The theory of intersectionnality - resulting from « Black feminism » - is a precious concept to analyze the domination experienced by the « métis » characters as intersectionnal experiments in which power struggles based on race, sex and class are inextricably mixed. Incarnating interracial relations perceived as essentially violent the mestizo/mulatto characters are interpreted by a society which tries to subsume them into preset racial and sexual categories. This crispation of the thought is what we are interested in.Key words: postcolonial studies; genre/gender; sexualities; queer theory; mestizaje/ miscegenation; identity; intersectional analysis.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-04T13:24:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Luis Fachim.pdf: 6749617 bytes, checksum: e449960688cdc6a70925738b376afec8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-04T13:24:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Luis Fachim.pdf: 6749617 bytes, checksum: e449960688cdc6a70925738b376afec8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-20 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The present work proposes an investigation on the LGBTQ theme in a Municipal School of Elementary Education (EMEF), located in a peripheral region in the North Zone of the city of São Paulo, in order to build a project about sexual and gender education, regarding the LGBTQ theme for teachers, students and school staff and analyze its developments. This is a qualitative research, of an interventionist nature, within the framework of an academic master's degree, within the group of Research in Educational Practices and Attention to the Family, School and Community (Ecofam), of the Graduate Program in Educational Psychology PUC-SP. Its main objective is to intervene and investigate the psychoeducational processes related to gender and sexuality, with regard to the LGBTQ theme, in the public school. The specific objectives are: (I) Participate in the psychoeducational processes related to the theme gender, sexuality, in the LGBTQ perspective, together with two instances: students and professionals responsible for the education of the students and for the formation of the school; (II) Co-construct a place in the school where this theme can be discussed. With a methodology that dialogues existential phenomenology and feminist proposals of knowledge construction, we intend to analyze our intervention, fruit of a year and a half of face-to-face work with teachers and adolescents of EMEF, organized in experiences reports constellated in the paradigm of the hermeneutical circle. The constellations found are: (I) Morro Grande adolescents: reflections on adolescence; who are the LGBTQ teenagers; humiliation and families from the teen perspective; (II) The educators of Morro Grande: reflections on educators; who are the LGBTQs who appear in the research in a psychoeducational context; humiliation and violence regarding school practices; (III) In search of a conclusive route to intervention - resignificances in the discourse of adolescents and teachers; analysis of what potentiates the intervention or not. The results point to: (I) discrepancies between adolescents and the concept of adolescence created by the psychoeducational discourse, being that the latter invisibilizes the former; (II) the school, among other institutions, exerts, by means of “straightterrorist” acts, violence on people who do not fit into the order constructed by the "Straight Mind"; (III) reflective attitudes, coconstructed in the community’s terms, have proved potent in the re-signification of the meanings of the themes surrounding the LGBTQ population, which, in turn, is increasingly in a condition of vulnerability and exclusion in the context exposed. Who is going to talk about and with the LGBTQ youth in public school? / O presente trabalho propõe uma investigação sobre a temática LGBTT em uma escola Municipal do Ensino Fundamental (EMEF), situada em uma região periférica na Zona Norte da cidade de São Paulo, a fim de construir um projeto sobre educação sexual e de gênero, no tocante da temática LGBTT, para professores, alunos e funcionários da escola, e analisar seus desdobramentos. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, de caráter interventivo, no âmbito de mestrado acadêmico, situada no grupo de Pesquisa em Práticas Educativas e Atenção Psicoeducacional à Família, Escola e Comunidade (Ecofam), do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Educação da PUC-SP. Tem como objetivo geral Intervir e investigar (n)os processos psicoeducacionais relacionados à temática gênero e sexualidade, no que diz respeito ao recorte LGBTT, na escola pública. Os objetivos específicos são: (I) Participar dos processos psicoeducacionais relacionados ao tema gênero, sexualidade, na perspectiva LGBTT, junto a duas instâncias: alunos e funcionários responsáveis pela formação dos educandos e pela construção da escola; (II) Co-construir um espaço na escola em que se possa discutir essa temática. Com metodologia que dialoga fenomenologia existencial e propostas feministas de construção de conhecimento, pretendemos analisar nossa intervenção, fruto de um ano e meio de trabalho presencial junto a professores e adolescentes da EMEF, organizada em relatos de experiência constelados, no paradigma do círculo hermenêutico. As constelações encontradas são: (I) Os adolescentes da Morro Grande: reflexões sobre adolescência; quem são as adolescentes LGBTTs; humilhação e as famílias pela perspectiva adolescente; (II) As educadoras da Morro Grande: reflexões sobre as educadoras; quem são as LGBTTs que aparecem na pesquisa em contexto psicoeducativo; humilhação e violência no tocante das práticas escolares; (III) Atrás de um percurso conclusivo - pistas para intervenções: ressignificações no discurso de adolescentes e de professores; análise do que potencializa ou não a intervenção. Os resultados apontam: (I) discrepâncias entre adolescentes que se diferem da categoria adolescência nos moldes criados pelo discurso psicoeducativo e a própria categoria adolescência, sendo que a segunda invisibiliza a primeira; (II) a escola, dentre outras instituições, exerce, por meio de atos “heteroterroistas”, violência sobre as pessoas que não se enquadram na ordem construída pela “Mente Heterossexual”; (III) atitudes que, se de caráter reflexivo e co-construídas nos termos da comunidade, mostram-se potentes na ressignificação de sentidos aos temas que envolvem a população LGBTT. Esta, por sua vez, se encontra cada vez mais em condição de vulnerabilidade e exclusão no contexto exposto. Quem vai falar da e com a juventude LGBTT na escola pública?

This dissertation engages with the driving motivations behind the actions of all those involved in The Gambia’s tourism-based sexual economy: the Gambian and other West African male and female sex workers, the Global North (habitually European) male and female tourists, the Gambian and expatriate Lebanese bar and restaurant owners, the Gambian state, and the semesters (members of the Gambian diaspora on vacation in The Gambia). It presents thick ethnographic accounts of interactions with Gambians and tourists, as they form temporary couples or friendships for the duration of tourists’ vacations, and sometimes for longer. This ethnography-rich dissertation pays careful attention to Gambian voices, which have been somewhat marginalized in the limited literature on sex tourism in The Gambia. It theorizes the existence of a Gambian sexscape, within which socio-sexual scripts are performed. The socio-sexual scripts that make the Gambian tourism-based sexual economy are re-located within Gambian society’s larger sexscape, which allows for a better consideration of the wider socio-economic, cultural, and political processes that have led to the formation of contemporary Gambian society. The dissertation briefly outlines The Gambia’s political and economic history, which explains the ongoing economic dependency and the importance of emigration for contemporary Gambian youth who want to escape the abject poverty in which too many live. It proposes a descriptive analysis of the Gambian sexscape and its socio-sexual scripts. Greater precision is given to the socio-sexual scripts that make the tourism-based sexual economy: chanters and white Global North female tourists; Gambian female sex workers and white Global North male tourists; Gambian men who have sex with Gambian men/semesters, and/or with white Global North male tourists. Finally, I adopt a socio-ecological approach to sexual health and examine the tourism-based sexual economy’ s impact on the country’s sexual health.