Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T12:18:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gigliana Maria Sobral Cavalcante.pdf: 1190767 bytes, checksum: 61b3c706a7dc3d7b663fbaa443519d22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In the study of the violence interpessoal it is impressindível the understanding of the gender differences in the intention of recognizing the papers, masculine and feminine, implicated in the adoption of aggressive behaviors. Homogeneous data and you trusted on the traumas maxilofaciais with base in the gender differences they are little approached. The objective of this research was to study the traumas maxilofaciais for aggression with emphasis in the differences among the goods, starting from decisions of registrations of the medicine Nucleus and Legal Dentistry of Campina Big-PB. A retrospective traverse study was accomplished in 1704 decisions of the year of 2010. The collection of data was accomplished through form I specify for registration of the information. The victims' general data, circumstance of the aggression, areas and attacked side were approached. A larger prevalência of victims of the feminine gender was observed (53,5%), unmarried women (62,2%), with incomplete fundamental teaching (38,2%), with monthly medium income of until a minimum wage (33,9%). THE aggressor, in most of the cases, was of the masculine gender (69%) and known of the victim (40,2%). the area more reached it was the orbital (19,7%). significant difference was observed among the goods for: surrender of the victim (p=0,012), circumstance of the aggression (p <0,001), the aggressor's characteristics (p <0,001), compromising tecidual (p <0,001), and I score used (p <0,001). The data about the moment of the occurrence didn't vary significantly among the goods. The papers attributed to the goods they exercise influence in the vitimização profile and in the mechanism of aggression of the traumas maxilofaciais. / No estudo da violência interpessoal é impressindível o entendimento das diferenças de gênero no intuito de reconhecer os papéis, masculinos e femininos, implicados na adoção de comportamentos agressivos. Dados homogêneos e confiáveis sobre os traumas maxilofaciais com base nas diferenças de gênero são pouco abordados. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi estudar os traumas maxilofaciais por agressão com ênfase nas diferenças entre os gêneros, a partir de laudos de registros do Núcleo de Medicina e Odontologia Legal de Campina Grande-PB. Foi realizado um estudo transversal retrospectivo em 1704 laudos do ano de 2010. A coleta de dados foi realizada através de formulário especifico para registro das informações. Foram abordados os dados gerais das vítimas, circunstância da agressão, regiões e lado acometido. Foi observada uma maior prevalência de vítimas do gênero feminino (53,5%), solteiras (62,2%), com ensino fundamental incompleto (38,2%), com renda média mensal de até um salário mínimo (33,9%). O agressor, na maioria dos casos, era do gênero masculino (69%) e conhecido da vítima (40,2%). A região mais atingida foi a orbital (19,7%). Foi observada diferença significativa entre os gêneros para: renda da vítima (p=0,012), circunstância da agressão (p<0,001), características do agressor (p<0,001), comprometimento tecidual (p<0,001), e instrumento utilizado (p<0,001). Os dados sobre o momento da ocorrência não variaram significativamente entre os gêneros. Os papéis atribuídos aos gêneros exerceram influência no perfil de vitimização e no mecanismo de agressão dos traumas maxilofaciais.

The subject of this diploma thesis is gender analysis of the main female characters in Bozena Nemcova's The Grandmother. The Grandmother, as a literary work that occupies an important place in Czech literary canon, was not examined from a gender perspective in Czech literature until this time. In this thesis I focused on the main female characters who play very important role and to whom is given wide space in the story. During analyzing the literary characters I worked with the selected feminist theories that I introduce in detail in theoretical and methodological part. This part is also dedicated to theoretical and methodological resources that I use in this thesis, particularly to women's reading and archetypal theories. This thesis is being examined from receptionist reader's view. I focus here primarily on presence of gender stereotypes, reproduction of values and norms of patriarchal system, and I also focus on presence of feminine archetypes that can be read from description of female characters. The object of this diploma thesis is evaluate the extent to which the book reproduce and further strengthen gender stereotypes, to what extent the main female characters internalize with gender structure of society or whether they act subversively and undermine the system. Keywords: The Grandmother,...

The aim of my work is at first characterized show female and male characters in the work named Orodovnice of feminist writer Jana Juranova and at second means of characterizing interpret and analyze what can be images of femininity and masculinity, this work offers to us through archetypal analysis and analysis of the relational nature of each character. Bacis hypothesis of this work is, that to us work offers a subversive potential in the context of contemporary social and cultural discursive practises and values. Task of this thesis is using gender analysis of the subversive potential to detect, interpret and explain in what are the possible subversive effects on the minds of people not only in literature and what possible new ways of perceiving and imaging may entail. The theoretical part is devoted to the concept and presentation of concepts in the context of feminism and literature, which considers relevant due to the focus and objective of this thesis. A separate chapter is devoted to a critical analysis of the archetype and archetypal imagery and their possible applications in the context of contemporary feminist literature. The analytical part is devoted to gender analysis of the image of male and female characters in the context of their mutual relational nature and then interpreting the...

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the patriarchal undertones and overt sexism that informs and takes place within undergraduate medical education (medical school). Using a feminist analysis, I will expose some of the ways in which sexism occurs. This includes at the levels of who is given authority to teach medical students, the biomedical research we are using as our primary knowledge source, what material is chosen to be prioritized vs what is left out of the curriculum, how this material is taught and interpreted, and what the larger cultural and value system is that medical education is embedded in. I will demonstrate how the patriarchal values of masculinity, objectivity, heroism, competition, technicality/procedurality, objectivity, rationality, and so on pervade each of these levels, devalue femininity and non-biomedical sources of knowledge, exclude women, and cause harm to all trainees and future patients. / Urban Bioethics

This study is focused on representations of power and masculinities in the movie “Warrior”(2011). By using the notion of interdiscursivity, as discussed by Norman Fairclough, my goal isto analyze how the roles of the characters relate to existing discourses in today’s society. I amprimarily interested in discourses revolving around MMA-fighters, masculinities and familyrelations.The movie to be analysed in this study is suited for interpreting new sorts of masculinitiesthrough the sport of MMA, which itself is fairly new and therefore might represent a new type ofmasculinity in the making. To be able to analyse this in the best possible way, I will be looking atmasculinities using a perspective developed by the Australian sociologist Raewyn Connell. Byrelating to four different dimensions of masculinity, this theory enables me to interpret whichtypes of masculinities, or combinations thereof, are presented in the film.

Zara Larsson and the male haters. A critical discourse analysis of the medias depiction of the singer Zara Larsson’s commentary on Bråvallafestivalen 2015 Zara Larsson, born in 1997, is a famous, young swedish singer. Besides her career in music she is also famous for her feminist thoughts in social media. In 2015, she critizised the swedish festival Bråvallafestivalen for its lack of female artists. This critizism was first published in the swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and afterwards there was a huge reaction in social media where lots of people critizised and threatened Zara Larsson because of her thougths. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore how swedish newspapers reports about this situation and how Zara Larsson is portrayed, from a genderperspective. We are using a thematic analysis and a critical discourse analysis as a method. The analysis is based on articles and opinion journalism in swedish newspapers from all over the country. Theories we have used for the study is gendersystems and ideology. The main conclusion of this study is that the debate ended up to be very polarized, and that the supporting side of Zara Larsson dominated the debate, while the opposition tended to be some sort of hopeless contenders. We could also se that the main ideology was feminism, both visible and hidden in the texts. Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, Thematic analysis, gender, Zara Larsson, Bråvalla festival.

The United Nations category Least Developed country (LDC) was created in 1971 to ameliorate conditions in countries the UN identified as the poorest of the poor. Its administration and operation within UN development discourse has not been explored previously in academic analysis. This thesis explores this rich archive of development discourse. It seeks to situate the LDC category as a vehicle that both produces and is a product of development discourse, and uses gender analysis as a critical tool to identify the ways in which the LDC category discourse operates. The thesis draws on Foucauldian theory to develop and use the concept ‘technologies of knowledge’, which places the dynamics of LDC discourse into relief. Three technologies of knowledge are identified: LDC policy, classification through criteria, and data. The ways each of these technologies of knowledge operates are explored through detailed readings of over thirty years of UN policy documents that form the thesis’s primary source material. A central question within this thesis is: If the majority of the world’s poor are women, where are the women in the policy about the countries that are the poorest of the poor? In focusing the analysis on the representation of women in LDCs, I place women at the centre of the analytic stage, as opposed to the marginal position I have found they occupy within LDC discourse. Through this analysis of the reductionist representations of LDC women, I explore the gendered dynamics of development discourse. Exploring the operation of these three technologies of knowledge reveals some of the discursive boundaries of UN LDC category discourse, particularly through its inability to incorporate gender analysis. The discussion of these three technologies of knowledge – policy, classification through criteria, and data – is framed by discussions of development and gender. The discussion on development positions this analysis within post-development critiques of development policy, practice and theory. The discussion on gender positions this analysis within the trajectory of postmodern and postcolonial influenced feminist engagements with development as a theory and praxis, particularly with debates about the representation of women in the third world. This case study of the operation of development discourse usefully highlights gendered dynamics of discursive ways of knowing.

The purpose of this study is to discover if there has been quantitative change in the gender balance of the employment profile of the ACT Department of Education from 1976 to 1991 and to explore possible reasons for such change. It should be noted that the Department has had several changes of name over the period covered by this study including the ACT Department of Education, the ACT Department of Health, Education and the Arts, and it is presently known as the ACT Department of Education and Training. For the sake of clarity it will be referred to throughout as the ACT Department of Education. The employment configuration will be studied from 1976, the earliest year of available data, to 1991 to measure relative changes in the position of men and women. This paper will examine significant events in the ACT Education system, in particular the introduction of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) legislation in 1984, to determine whether the introduction of legislation and/or other initiatives brought about moves toward Equal Employment Opportunity for women. The study will develop and consider hypotheses and examine several theoretical explanations for the changes or lack of them in the position of men and women. Recommendations will be made concerning future directions for research and action to achieve equal employment opportunity for women, the largest group of the four groups targeted in the EEO legislation. The central argument of the study is that the adoption of quantitative approaches to measure success/failure in EEO programs is of limited use. These theoretical approaches, largely informed by liberal feminism, offer inadequate understanding of the resistances to change. Other theoretical perspectives are needed if the issue is seen as "what are the resistances and what are the policies and strategies that can be developed to overcome them?". Feminist critical theory, however, enables more productive questions to be raised about how social power is constructed and maintained, about hegemonic culture, and about the language and cultural biases embedded in administrative structures in education. Insights thus gained into issues, events and resistances give individuals and groups agency, the power to act for change.

The aim of this essay is to study how women are portrayed in three different teaching materials in the subject of Swedish, and how these descriptions relate to curricula from three decades. To shed light on this, the study uses Nikolajeva’s theoretical construction of gender stereotypes, which contains with the traits that stereotypically are characteristic of women and men. The analysis is based on close-reading of the textbooks, and the result shows that the selected teaching materials are not entirely gender-equal. The study covers textbooks from three decades and shows that the teaching materials have changed over time and are moving in the right direction. But there is still some way to go before the textbooks satisfy the demands of the curriculum when it comes to gender and equality between women and men.

Thesis (M.Sc. Agriculture (Agricultural Economics) -- University of Limpopo, 2019 / Agriculture has long been argued to be the dominant sector of the South African economy. Despite the huge agricultural potential of the country, the agricultural sector is underperforming in Less Developing Countries (LDCs) to some extent because female small-scale farmers, who play a vital role in agriculture, encounter credit constraints because of their gender and this in turn reduce their productivity. Therefore, the gender gap in terms of access to credit indicates that there is a need to reassess the problem of credit access by small-scale farmers on the basis of gender. This study was carried out in the Greater Letaba Municipality (GLM) which is situated in the Mopani District of Limpopo Province, with the aim of analysing factors that influence formal credit access by both female and male small-scale farmers. Structured questionnaires were employed to collect the data for the analyses from 140 sampled small-scale farmers (70 males and 70 females) selected using stratified random sampling technique. The findings of the probit regression model discovered that gender, extension services, land ownership, age, collateral and farm size had a significant positive influence on small-scale farmers` access to formal credit in the GLM. Additionally, the findings further revealed that household size, farming experience, farm-income, marital status had an insignificant negative influence on the small-scale farmers` access to formal credit whereas education level had an insignificant positive influence on the small-scale farmers` access to formal credit. On average, male and female small-scale farmers with access to formal credit were 71 % and 29 %, respectively whereas the male and female small-scale farmers without access to formal credit were 35% and 65%, respectively. The female small-scale farmers` perceptions towards the credit system that were derived from the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) are as follows: (i) male smallscale farmers effortlessly get credit from banks contrasted with their female counterparts, (ii) small-scale farmers with more education and collateral tend to access formal credit than their counterparts and (iii) small-scale farmers who are nearest to iii the banks are more likely to access credit than small-scale farmers who are far away. Based on the study findings, a set of recommendations for achieving equitable formal credit access by male and female small-scale farmers were put forward. / National Research Fund (NRF)