Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture Program, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-183).

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Rhode Island, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-113).

This paper proposes a study that investigates whether manipulating pitch and tempo in children’s toy advertisement music has an effect on gender identity and sex stereotyping in preschool-aged girls. This particular intersection between advertisement, persuasion, gender identity, and sex stereotyping scholarship has not yet been explored. However, past research does suggest that high pitch and fast tempo have a significant positive impact on mood and arousal, two factors associated with more susceptibility to persuasive messages. The 3- to 4-year-old female participants will be randomly assigned to one of the nine advertisement conditions. The music in the ads for each condition will contain a combination of pitch variation (high, medium, or low pitch) as well as a tempo variation (fast, medium, or slow tempo) to create a fully-crossed design. The dependent variables, gender identity and sex stereotyping, will be measured in the lab before and after a 2-week period in which the the advertisement stimuli will be presented in the children’s homes. Based on previous research, higher pitch and faster tempo are expected to be associated with more stereotypical gender identity and more sex stereotyping in participants.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:47:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1602149 bytes, checksum: bef2c0db8158997fe19ef3e6cf8ebb71 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This is a quantitative study, ecological, exploratory, transversal, using spatial analysis of areal data, whose population was composed of all occurrences reported by women victims of domestic violence, living in the city of João Pessoa , in the period 2002 to 2007, at the Police Service specialized in Women´s violence in João Pessoa. The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial distribution of domestic violence against women to support managers in decision-making process in the development and implementation of public policies on women's health in specific areas of the city. The results identified areas of high and low incidence of domestic violence against women, and also the risk of each quarter when compared to the city of Joao Pessoa. From the Ord and Getis index a decision was produced of wich are the priority areas that need intervention on domestic violence against women. Given this reality, we emphasize the need for changes in practice with regard to attention to women victims of violence, linking health services, the Public Security Bureau, the Secretariat of Policies for Women and Education Institutions, in order to reorient the work process of professional practices, promoting skills in the logic of continuing education services, as well as vocational training that includes discussions on gender and violence against women. / Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo, ecológico, exploratório, transversal, com utilização de técnicas de análise espacial de dados de área, cuja população foi composta por todas as ocorrências denunciadas por mulheres vítimas de violência doméstica, residentes no município de João Pessoa, no período de 2002 a 2007, na Delegacia Especializada de Atendimento da Mulher em João Pessoa-PB. O objetivo desse estudo foi investigar a distribuição espacial de violência doméstica contra a mulher para subsidiar os gestores no processo de tomada de decisão na elaboração e implantação das políticas públicas de saúde da mulher em áreas específicas da cidade. A análise dos resultados permitiu identificar as áreas de alta e baixa incidência de violência doméstica contra a mulher, como também o risco de cada bairro quando comparados à cidade de João Pessoa. A partir do Índice de Getis e Ord produziu-se a decisão das áreas prioritárias que necessitam de intervenção sobre a violência doméstica contra a mulher. Diante dessa realidade, ressaltamos a necessidade de mudanças de prática no que se referem à atenção as mulheres vítimas de violência, articulação entre os serviços de saúde, a Secretaria de Segurança Pública, a Secretaria de Políticas para Mulheres e as Instituições de Ensino, no sentido de reorientação do processo de trabalho das práticas profissionais, promovendo qualificação na lógica da educação permanente nos serviços, como também uma formação profissional que contemple discussões sobre gênero e violência contra a mulher.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T20:50:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-24 / A violência doméstica contra a mulher no Brasil e no mundo é tema de apreensão para a época presente. Trata-se de um fenômeno surpreendentemente contemporâneo, embora recorrente na história da humanidade. A violência nas relações entre parceiros mostra uma dinâmica de poder e um tipo de afeto onde estão presentes a dominação e a submissão caracterizada pela diferença de gênero que pode ser propiciada na medida em que a divisão interna de papéis se configura em direitos e deveres com privilégios para uma das partes dentro do ambiente intrafamiliar. Trabalhos na área de ciências humanas têm apresentado uma compreensão deste contexto por meio dos danos psicológicos implicados nas mulheres em situação de violência doméstica, assim como também no âmbito histórico-social que parecem apontar para uma mulher com necessidade de tutores pela condição de dependência e co-dependência existentes. Esta dissertação, com base na Psicologia aliada à Psiquiatria, teve como objetivo investigar a história de vida de mulheres agredidas e se tiveram mães agredidas. E investigamos de que forma alguns aspectos da identidade feminina e a maternidade se relacionam na construção e formação da mulher em situação de violência intrafamiliar, e também como o Transtorno do Estresse Pós-Traumático (TEPT) pode ocorrer nestes casos. A metodologia adotada é a qualitativa com a técnica de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com roteiro de perguntas que nortearam os temas da pesquisa. Foram usados instrumentos para diagnosticar ou não o TEPT assim como avaliar sua gravidade do quadro e para verificar a presença de histórico de abuso e trauma durante a infância e adolescência destas mulheres. As participantes eram pacientes em atendimento no ambulatório que é referência para o tratamento de violência. E também foram encaminhadas pacientes da Delegacia da Mulher, provenientes da coleta de dados da pesquisa de outra autora. A análise dos dados ocorreu a partir dos fundamentos da psicologia analítica aliado ao contexto histórico-social. Os resultados mostraram que as participantes tiveram uma estrutura familiar baseada em episódios ou em contexto de violência, onde a relação mãe-filha é relevante na transmissão da desigualdade de gênero, além de ser considerável a “pré- condição” ao TEPT, devido aos problemas emocionais decorrentes do ambiente violento presente na infância. Como conclusão deste estudo, pudemos chegar à idéia central deste trabalho quanto à importância do papel materno na formação da identidade feminina, uma vez que a mãe carrega em si o padrão histórico-social e cultural da condição da mulher e também, de um psicológico marcado pela contextualização da violência, compartilhando com sua filha, agindo ou recebendo a violência, direta ou indiretamente através da violência psicológica, que é a inicial para outras formas de violência doméstica. Mediante o quadro, há uma estrutura psicofisiológica propensa a desencadear o TEPT na vida adulta dessas filhas, vítimas de violência doméstica. / Domestic violence against women in Brazil and the world is a matter of concern at the present time. This is a surprisingly contemporary phenomenon, although it has occurred throughout the history of mankind. Violence in relations between the two shows a dynamic of power and a kind of effect which are present in domination and submission characterized by the gender differences that can be seen to the extent that the internal division of roles is configured in rights and duties with privileges to one of the parties within the family environment. Work in human sciences has given us an understanding of the context of psychological damage involving women in situations of domestic violence, as well as the historical and social context that seem to point to a woman in need of mentors for those who have a condition of dependence and co – dependency. This dissertation, which is based on psychology combined with psychiatry, aims to investigate whether battered women had mothers mothers that were abused. We have investigated some aspects of female identity and motherhood that are related to the growth and training of women in situations of family violence, as well as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as it occurs in these cases. The methodology is the qualitative technique of a semi-structured script of questions that guide the research subjects. These were used as tools to diagnose whether or not there is PTSD and also its severity, and used for the presence of a history of abuse and trauma during childhood and adolescence of these women. The participants were patients in the outpatient clinic a facility for the treatment of violence. Also patients were referred from the Womens Police Unit, from a collection of survey data and from other author. Data analysis was based on the theoretical resources-historical and anthropological, as well as fundamentals of analytical psychology. The results showed that participants had a family structure based on episodes or in the context of violence, where the mother-daughter relationship is important in the transmission of gender inequality, and is considerably preconditioned with PTSD due to emotional problems from this violent environment in childhood. At the conclusion of this study, we arrived at the idea of this paper on the importance of the maternal role in the formation of female identity, since the mother carries the standard historical-social and cultural status of women and also a marked psychological the context of violence, sharing with her daughter, acting or receiving violence, directly or indirectly through the psychological, which is home to other forms of domestic violence. Through this framework, there is a structure prone to psycho trigger PTSD in adulthood their daughters, victims of domestic violence. / TEDE / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações

The subject matter for this research is the representation of femininities and masculinities in Roman art with particular reference to that of Roman Britain. The study focuses on the visual presentation of gender for specific deities, personifications and figural images in funerary art; this includes concepts of sexuality that in some cases become entwined with the study of gender. I have endeavoured to demonstrate how socially constructed values add to the understandings of gender and Roman art. The first chapter concentrates on Roman concepts relating to masculinities and femininities, detailing how these are portrayed in visual culture. This entails the identification of gender markers in various forms including clothing (for example the toga and stola), jewellery (such as the bulla) and distinct objects (for instance, military paraphernalia, weaving combs and spinning equipment). Following this broad introduction to gender in Roman art, the study then centres on specific deities, commencing with Venus and Mars, then Diana and Apollo, and Minerva and Hercules - each one has a particular gender ascription. I examine these in terms of visual representation and how their specific femininities and masculinities were presented. Personifications and figural funerary art, respectively, are the following and final chapters of the research. The former deals with the use of personifications in Roman art and the latter with patronage and presentation of figural tombstones and inscriptions. Both chapters observe these issues with preference towards the demonstration of gender allocation and any undertones implicated.

Magister Legum - LLM / For many, the human rights which South Africa has been able to secure for LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people has been very progressive. However, with the conflation of sexual orientation and gender identity, the assumption of access to human rights for all within the LGBTI and society at large, has led to transsexual people not being able to claim their rights and assert their existence as human beings effectively within our constitutional democracy. Currently, there is a vacuum in South Africa's law of marriage based on its inability to accommodate spouses who married as a 'heterosexual' couple but where the one spouse subsequently undergoes gender affirmation, conforming the relationship to what is perceived as 'homosexual'. On account of this, the Department of Home Affairs are subjecting these couples to compulsory or forced divorces by refusing to have the transsexual spouse recognised within his or her affirmed gender on the marriage certificate. This means that the transsexual spouse either remains married under the Marriage Act and is subject to being recognised as his or her birth-sex, or submits to a compulsory or forced divorce in order to be recognised as his or her affirmed sex on a marriage certificate issued under the Civil Union Act upon them 'remarrying'. This thesis addresses the inequalities and inequities brought about by the Marriage Act. It investigates the history of marriages within South Africa that were prohibited based on characteristics such as race which people have no control over. It looks at how the State, through its departments, has imposed itself on the social relationships people formed subject to its legal terms and conditions. This thesis questions whether the State through its action is acting in a way that is administratively just. It argues that the successfulness of a divorce decree is dependent on at least one party voluntary applying for it. This presupposes the idea that whenever couples who are validly married are forced or compelled to divorce one another that this, in fact, cannot be seen as one of the valid ways in which to obtain a divorce decree legally. Before venturing into the legal aspect concerning this research topic, a theoretical framework will be advanced to position these couples in a greater social context. Subsequently, in order to establish the legal position of these couples, this thesis will draw on the current South African human rights discourse that has been developed by and for the LGBTI community, especially as it relates to the law of marriage. It will also establish the international and foreign human rights discourses that assert or, at least, seek to assert LGBTI human rights broadly. Ultimately, a constitutional analysis will be conducted to establish the position of these couples under the Marriage Act.

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