Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:12:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Hailer Sanchez.pdf: 608465 bytes, checksum: 6433e6cc6f96b3bcb32817c3de552b6d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-29 / This research aims to analyze the construction of gay characters in narratives displayed in the range night Globo. This is to demonstrate how are strongly marked by heteronormativity, understood as the organization of male sexuality, and how the privilege of this standard becomes invisible even homosexuality in the novels overall. We hypothesized that, unlike what happens with heterosexuality, which organizes homosexuality as an opposite, heteronormativity does not include opposition or heteronomy. The gay characters as discursive device to strengthen the rules of the Matrix heteronormative. The research corpus comprises the novels America (2006), Two Faces (2007/08), Tropical Paradise (2007) and Foolish Heart (2011), to be examined from the angle of its forward or backward in relation to the representation of the body dissident gay. The base of theoretical studies of Michel Foucault about the construction of normative discourses and scholars of communication within the cultural industry such as Edgard Morin and Theodor Adorno. The methodology used and the historical survey decoupage dialog / Esta pesquisa propõe analisar a construção de personagens gays em narrativas teledramatúrgicas exibidas na faixa noturna da Rede Globo. Trata-se de demonstrar como são fortemente marcadas pela heteronormatividade, entendida como a organização masculina da sexualidade, e como o privilégio desta norma ainda torna invisível a homossexualidade nas novelas globais. Trabalhamos com a hipótese de que, diferentemente do que acontece com a heterossexualidade, que organiza a homossexualidade como um oposto, a heteronormatividade não contempla oposição ou heteronímia. Ou seja, as personagens gays enquanto dispositivo discursivo para fortalecer as normas da Matriz Heteronormativa. O corpus da pesquisa compreende as novelas América (2006), Duas Caras (2007/08), Paraíso Tropical (2007) e Insensato Coração (2011), a serem examinadas do ângulo de seu avanço ou retrocesso em relação à representação do corpo dissidente do gay. Utilizamos como base teórica os estudos de Michel Foucault a respeito da construção dos discursos normativos e com os estudiosos da comunicação no âmbito da indústria cultural, tais como Edgard Morin e Theodor Adorno. Como metodologia, utilizamos o levantamento histórico e a decupagem de diálogo

The aim of our study was to examine how homosexual and heterosexual men and women are represented in the Swedish magazine QX, a magazine for gay, bisexual and transgender people. We wanted to find out what kind of roles the persons in QX appears in, and inquire the relationships that exist between them. We analyzed the texts in twelve magazines, from December 2008 to November 2009, in order to get the most current results as possible. We used a discourse analysis, with focus on identities, relationships and the representation of the world. Representations, gender, hegemonic masculinity and stereotypes have been significant theories to analyze our results. The results showed that the successful gay man is the most important person in QX. He is the perfect masculine macho fagot, who is highest in rank. Something we found remarkable is that the gay women are subordinate to men, despite that QX is a magazine for both parts. The results also showed that homosexual women are represented more stereotyped than the homosexual men. The heterosexual men are represented as the homosexual men’s supporter, while heterosexual women are represented very queer and argues that a human’s gender, is not primarily in focus when it comes to relations. In our results, we could also see that, generally, there is a more sexistic tone in texts about men than in texts about women.

<p>The aim of our study was to examine how homosexual and heterosexual men and women are represented in the Swedish magazine QX, a magazine for gay, bisexual and transgender people. We wanted to find out what kind of roles the persons in QX appears in, and inquire the relationships that exist between them.</p><p>We analyzed the texts in twelve magazines, from December 2008 to November 2009, in order to get the most current results as possible. We used a discourse analysis, with focus on identities, relationships and the representation of the world. Representations, gender, hegemonic masculinity and stereotypes have been significant theories to analyze our results.</p><p>The results showed that the successful gay man is the most important person in QX. He is the perfect masculine macho fagot, who is highest in rank. Something we found remarkable is that the gay women are subordinate to men, despite that QX is a magazine for both parts. The results also showed that homosexual women are represented more stereotyped than the homosexual men. The heterosexual men are represented as the homosexual men’s supporter, while heterosexual women are represented very queer and argues that a human’s gender, is not primarily in focus when it comes to relations. In our results, we could also see that, generally, there is a more sexistic tone in texts about men than in texts about women.</p>

The purpose of this study has been to investigate teachers’ treatment of girls and boys in religiouseducation and how these teachers discuss their treatment of them. The study is set in Kurdistan innorthern Iraq. Religion teachers were interviewed in order to examine their reasoning regardingtheir treatment of girls and boys and observations have been performed to investigate how theseteachers treat the students in religious education. As a background, the study describes the Kurdisheducation from the time of them being an ethnic minority group in northern Iraq to becoming a selfgovernedregion with their own curriculum. This study has used a qualitative method whereinterviews have been conducted with a phenomenological approach and ethnography as a methodfor the observations. The study's results have been analyzed based on its gender-theoretical points.The study has been written with the help of a phenomenology approach. The results have beendiscussed based on the studies gender-theoretical points. The conclusion is that even though girlsand boys are considered equal they do not have equal opportunities. / Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka lärares bemötande av flickor respektive pojkar ireligionsundervisningen i Kurdistan i norra Irak, samt hur dessa lärare resonerar kring sittbemötande. Religionslärare har intervjuats för att undersöka deras resonemang kring sitt bemötandeoch observationer har utförts för att undersöka hur dessa lärare bemöter eleverna ireligionsundervisningen. Som bakgrund har studien beskrivit Kurdistans undervisning från att varaen minoritetsfolkgrupp i norra Irak till att sedan bli en självstyrd region med egen läroplan. Enkvalitativ metod har använts och intervjuer med ett fenomenologiskt tillvägagångsätt har utförtsoch med etnografi som observationsmetod. Resultat har analyserats utifrån de genusteoretiskautgångspunkter. Utifrån fenomenologin och de teoretiska utgångspunkterna har resultatetdiskuterats. Slutsatsen är att trots att flickor och pojkar ses som jämlika så har de inte likamöjligheter.

Over the 20th century, Malians relied on local reproductive specialists: excisers (who oversaw initiation and circumcision ceremonies), nuptial counselors (who provided sexual education at marriage), and midwives. These older women’s work remained vital to social conceptions of proper reproduction, even as the biomedical maternal health system expanded, and Malians adjusted to new forms of religiosity and new ideas of status. Reproductive Labors: Women’s Expertise and Biomedical Authority in Mali 1935-1999 traces how, as biomedical care expanded over the 20th century, women and their families, feminist activists, medical professionals, and non-profit workers began to debate the importance of local reproductive practices. Part 1 explores the role of specialist labor in socializing sexuality and gender norms. In Chapter 1, I argue that following the end of slavery in the early 20th century, Malian families used nuptial counseling to instill concepts of honorable sexuality and demonstrate status at marriage (1935-1958). After independence, public outcry over unwed mothers revealed different visions of extra/marital sexuality and adolescence for nuptial counselors and state-affiliated women activists (1959-1986). In Part 2, I turn to reproductive health interventions. Chapter 3 reveals how the colonial maternal health system relied on external actors, from benevolent associations to Malian midwives, all of whom defined women’s bodies as childbearing bodies (1935-1958). Successive post-colonial governments sought to develop policies to ensure rural health access, toggling between training medical professionals to work in rural places and training local specialists, such as midwives, in biomedical techniques (1957-1976). The integration of midwives into biomedical clinics created substantial overlap between various therapeutic interventions, as I show in Chapter 5. Finally, Chapter 6 demonstrates how Malian participation in anti-excision activism owed as much to previous debates over marriage, unwed mothers, and rural maternity care as to transnational feminist movements and developmentalist interventions (1984-1999). Reproductive Labors is based on interdisciplinary research in Mali, Senegal, France and the US, including archival research, oral histories, and ethnographic work. In addition to working in national archives, the project engages with the floatsam of project reports now safe-guarded in people’s homes, bureaucratic documents from institutional archives like Mali’s National Health Directorate, and student theses. However, women’s specialist labor is less visible in archival material. In response to this elision of gendered knowledge, the project integrates ethnographic observation and French and Bamanakan oral history interviews with women specialists, as well as medical personnel and gender-rights activists. Reproductive Labors demonstrates how Malians were socialized into heterosexuality not simply through family or media, but through specific specialist interventions which linked heterosexuality to biological reproduction and gendered identities, deepening key themes in gender and sexuality studies. Reproductive specialists’ expertise was defined by their gender, skill, age, and social status, as most were older women of endogamous social group descent. Conversely, the activists who campaigned against them were usually highly-educated young women with close ties to international feminist institutions, although these linkages were structured by the colonial afterlives of educational and financial networks. Over the 20th century, questions about which group should have authority over young women’s reproductive experiences led to numerous debates for women and their families. Secondly, this project demonstrates that the continued value of local specialists for Malians, alongside the medical system’s reliance on external actors and instability in rural areas, created a specific form of Malian biomedicine driven as much by local therapeutic practices and social hierarchies as by international norms, enriching recent scholarship on the local specificities of biomedicine. Finally, this dissertation deepens scholarship on state-making in Africa. It demonstrates that reproductive health was not simply a subfield of the post-colonial Malian health system but that it became a key site for innovation in governance. As the first academic history of reproductive health in Mali, which has one of the world’s highest rates of maternal and child mortality, this dissertation seeks to understand the history of reproductive practices as a step towards reproductive justice.

This thesis presents the basic principles of the functioning of the heteronormative order: in what way heterosexuality is constructed as the norm and in what way it is maintained as such. The thesis simultaneously examines the possibilities of disrupting the heteronormative order, creating queer spaces, and defining the term queer and queer politics in the framework of a queer subculture. The aim of the research carried out within the thesis is to contribute to the visibility of queer subculture, present ways in which the term queer is used in queer subculture and show to what degree the examined queer subcultural spaces are created as open spaces and to whom they are accessible. In the Czech Republic the term queer is used as a synonym for LGBT identities or as an umbrella term for LGBTI people and activities. Nevertheless, as follows from the analysis of semi-structured interviews, the term queer can have even other meanings. It can express criticism of heteronormativity, homonormativity, mainstream LGBT politics and culture, and the attempt to overcome the norms connected with gender and sexuality. In this regard, the term queer can refer not only to an identity and also to a political position. The interweaving of queer and feminist theory can be inspiring not only for the development of gender...

The thesis describes the process of coming out in non-heterosexual people, its development and importance in heteronormative societies. It focuses on the overall inclusivity, destigmatization and detabuization of non-heterosexual people in the society as well as in the scientific research. The theoretic part presents firstly the original models describing coming out as a linear development with a clear ending and secondly the current concept perceiving coming out as a complex psycho-social-sexual process, not necessarily one-directional nor terminable. The key part of the secondly named approach are eight developmental milestones which in some way appear during the process of coming out in most non-heterosexual people. The empirical part focuses on coming out in Czech society, mostly on the search for common topics which can be found during its course and the description of their specific form in the participants of the study. Qualitative empirical design, specifically semi-structured in-depth interviews and thematic analysis were used for these purposes. The results partly correspond with the developmental milestones described in the theoretic part, but new topics - specific for the Czech society - appear as well. Keywords Coming out; Heteronormativity; Non-heterosexuality; Sexual identity; Sexual...

This study has analyzed five different judgments from the colonial anti-sodomy law Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code using the frameworks of Foucauldian genealogical discourse, and Judith Butler’s heterosexual matrix. The aim was to understand and expose how sexuality and lesbianism were constructed within these judgments and to make the norms within the discourses visible. The findings showed sexuality as dependent on a heterosexual and gender-binary norm. Gender hierarchy creates structures of the gender binary that positioned the man in the center of sexual interaction, desire, and sexuality. In contrast, the woman played a passive and often invisible, and nonsexual role. Further, the gender hierarchy produced a sexual hierarchy with natural heterosexuality as the most desirable. To maintain good heterosexuality, differentiation was crucial hence the undesirable and perverted male homosexuality acted as a hostile opposition. Due to the role of women as passive lesbianism appeared invisible. The discourse of the nonsexual woman made lesbian sexuality unimaginable. As a consequence, the lesbian was assumed asexual.

In A Question of Power Bessie Head explores metaphysical forms of knowledge and systems of belief (against a background of what is verifiable and can be called the truth) and finds them necessary but flawed because they are illogical. The experience of madness in Bessie Head's main character, Elizabeth, (which is caused by a deep fear of domination and oppression), provides an opportunity for the character to raise propositions and questions of philosophy related to race, class, heterosexuality, God, to mention but a few, and to come to the conclusion that the 'truth' claims which are implied in and suggested by these notions do not obtain in real life. In other words, there is no stable, transcendental reality. It dawns on Elizabeth (the main character) that certain realms of knowledge which society has determined as objective truth will remain forever unknowable. Thus Elizabeth, the main character in a A Question of Power, identifies and challenges all patriarchal structures and power hierarchies in society, seeing them as the real causes of her suffering. After completing this process of deeonstruction, she is able to integrate herself into society. / English Studies / M. A. (English)

Cette étude cherche à comprendre comment la production théorique dans le champ de la psychanalyse traditionnelle au Brésil décrit l’homosexualité et son rapport avec le concept psychanalytique de « complexe d’OEdipe », tandis que : a) il y a une reconnaissance scientifique que l’homosexualité per se n’est pas une pathologie, ce qui peut être observé dans des manuels diagnostiques comme celui du DSM et celui du CID ; b) l’instruction normative du Conseil Fédéral de Psychologie oriente les psychologues de ne pas agir de façon à "guérir" et/ou stigmatiser l'homosexualité; c) Il existe des critiques paradoxales (positives et négatives) aux textes freudiens concernant l'homosexualité; d) nous voyons une diffusion dans la culture d’un approche non-académique qui comprend l’homosexualité comme un défaut dans le processus d'OEdipe; e) notre recherche antérieure indique que des sujets qui ont eu une experience de thérapie psychologique disent que l’homosexualité a été vue par le(la) thérapeute comme une déviation d’un développement normal ; f) le processus défini comme psychanalisme par Robert Castel, d’une façon générale, indique comment la psychanalyse s'est institutionnalisée et a produit des effets dans le social, ce qui nous permet de penser que ce qui a été publié en théorie et clinique psychanalytique a influencé la société contemporaine occidentale. Quant à la démarche méthodologique, la recherche a été développée à partir d’une orientation archéogénéalogique qui se sert de la production théorique de Michel Foucault comme un moyen de réfléchir sur les conditions de possibilité de émmergence d’un discours psychanalytique déterminé. Nous avons alors cherché à comprendre les jeux de vérité qui traversent ce discours à partir de la problématisation des concepts et des approches naturalisés. Nous avons utilisé comme corpus de recherche, les articles publiés par la Revue Brésilienne de Psychanalyse dans la période de 1980 à 2010. Nous avons remarqué que les énoncés de la famille traditionnelle, de l'universalité du complexe d'OEdipe, de la menace de l'anti-OEdipe et de la racine phylogénétique font partie du réseau discursif de la psychanalyse traditionnelle. Celle-ci, nous pouvons le penser, est structuré sur les mêmes bases du discours du christianisme où les énoncés de culpabilité et de fatalité sont soulignés. Nous soulignons dans ce contexte que l'énoncé d'homosexualité renvoie à une connotation d'anomalie dans le discours psychanalytique. Nous concluons que l’homosexualité, lorsqu’elle est insérée dans le cadre théorique analysé comme équivalente à l'hétérosexualité, ébranle le réseau discursif de la psychanalyse traditionnelle, parce que celle-ci est le produit et au même temps une outil de renforcement du dispositif de la sexualité en affirmant l'hétérosexualité comme la norme. / Este estudo busca compreender como a produção teórica no campo da psicanálise tradicional no Brasil aborda a homossexualidade e sua relação com o conceito psicanalítico de “complexo de Édipo”, uma vez que: a) há o reconhecimento científico de que a homossexualidade per se não é uma patologia, o que pode ser observado em manuais diagnósticos como o DSM e o CID; b) a instrução normativa do Conselho Federal de Psicologia orienta os psicólogos e as psicólogas a não agirem de forma a “curar” e/ou a estigmatizar a homossexualidade; c) existem críticas paradoxais (tanto positivas quanto negativas) aos textos freudianos em relação à homossexualidade; d) se encontra a difusão na cultura de uma abordagem não-acadêmica que entende a homossexualidade como falha no processo de Édipo; e) pesquisa anterior aponta para o fato de que sujeitos que passaram pela clínica psicológica indicam que a homossexualidade foi vista pelo terapeuta ou pela terapeuta como algo que desvia do desenvolvimento normal; f) o processo definido como psicanalismo por Robert Castel, de uma forma geral, aponta para o modo pelo qual a psicanálise se institucionalizou e produziu efeitos no social, possibilitando pensar que o que foi publicado em termos de teoria e clínica psicanalítica influenciou a sociedade contemporânea ocidental. Quanto à perspectiva metodológica, a pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir de uma orientação arquegenealógica, utilizando a produção teórica de Michel Foucault como forma de refletir sobre as condições de possibilidade de surgimento de um determinado discurso psicanalítico. Portanto, buscou-se compreender os jogos de verdade que atravessam esse discurso, problematizando conceitos e sentidos naturalizados. Utilizou-se como corpus de pesquisa os artigos publicados pela Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise no período de 1980 a 2010. Evidenciou-se que os enunciados da família tradicional, da universalidade do complexo de Édipo, da ameaça do anti-Édipo e da raiz filogenética fazem parte da rede discursiva da psicanálise tradicional. Esta, por sua vez, pode ser pensada como estruturada pelas mesmas bases do discurso do cristianismo, destacando-se os enunciados da culpa e da fatalidade. Ressalta-se nesse contexto o enunciado de homossexualidade remetendo a uma conotação de anomalia dentro do discurso psicanalítico. Infere-se que a homossexualidade, se inserida no construto teórico analisado como equivalente à heterossexualidade, abalaria a rede discursiva da psicanálise tradicional, uma vez que a mesma é produto e reitera o dispositivo da sexualidade, que afirma a heterossexualidade como norma. / This essay seeks to comprehend how the traditional Brazilian psychoanalysis theoretical production approaches the subject of homosexuality and its relation to the psychoanalytic prospect of “Oedipus complex”, once: a) there is a scientific acknowledgement that homosexuality per se is not a disease, what could be observed on diagnostic manuals such as DSM and CID; b) a normative act from Brazilian Federal Council of Psychology guiding psychologists neither stigmatize homosexuality nor to look for a cure for homosexuality; c) there are both positive and negative paradoxical critics concerning Freud’s texts about homosexuality; d) there is a cultural diffusion of a non-academic concept of homosexuality resulting from a failure to master the Oedipus complex; e) earlier researches indicates that many of those who experienced psychological clinics point that therapists usually considers homosexualism as something that departs from a standard behaviour; f) in a general form, the process defined by Robert Castel as psychanalysme points the ways psychoanalysis institutionalized itself on society and produced effects on it, making it possible to think that what was once published concerning psychoanalytic theory and clinics influenced contemporary Occidental society. Concerning the methodological approach, this research was developed based on an arch genealogical orientation, utilizing Michel Foucault theoretical production to sustain the possibility of emergence of a new psychoanalytic discourse. This essay also seeks to comprehend the truth games that go through such psychoanalytic discourse, problematizing concepts and meanings taken as naturals. Articles published on Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise from 1980 to 2010 were used as research corpus. It became evident that the discourse either from the traditional family, from the Oedipus complex universality, from the anti-Oedipus threaten, and from phylogenetic roots brings out part of the traditional psychoanalytic discourse, which could be thought as a structure similar to the one presented on Christianism, mainly on what concerns feelings of guilty and fatality. Based on this context, it is possible to highlight how homosexuality is treated as an abnormality in the psychoanalytic discourse. We may imply that homosexuality, if considered as equivalent to heterosexuality in the theoretical construct analysed in this essay, it would affect traditional psychoanalysis’ discursive network, once it is considered a product and it reiterates the sexuality device, which affirms heterosexualism as a norm. / Este estudio busca comprender cómo la producción teórica en el campo del psicoanálisis tradicional en Brasil aborda la homosexualidad y su relación con el concepto psicoanalítico de “complejo de Edipo”, una vez que: a) existe el reconocimiento científico de que la homosexualidad per se no es una patología, lo que puede ser observado en manuales diagnósticos como el DSM y el CID; b) la instrucción normativa del Consejo Federal de Psicología orienta a los psicólogos y a las psicólogas a no actuar de forma a “curar” y/o a estigmatizar la homosexualidad; c) existen críticas paradoxales (tanto positivas como negativas) a los textos freudianos con relación a la homosexualidad; d) se encuentra la difusión en la cultura de un abordaje no académico que entiende la homosexualidad como falla en el proceso de Edipo; e) investigación anterior señala para el hecho de que sujetos que pasaron por la clínica psicológica indican que la homosexualidad fue vista por el terapeuta o por la terapeuta como algo que desvía del desarrollo normal; f) el proceso definido como psicoanalismo por Robert Castel, de una forma general, señala para el modo por el cual el psicoanálisis se institucionalizó y produjo efectos en lo social, posibilitando pensar que lo que se publicó en términos de teoría y clínica psicoanalítica influenció a la sociedad contemporánea occidental. Cuanto a la perspectiva metodológica, la investigación fue desarrollada a partir de una orientación arquegenealógica, utilizando la producción teórica de Michel Foucault como forma de reflexionar sobre las condiciones de posibilidad de surgimiento de un determinado discurso psicoanalítico. Por lo tanto, se buscó comprender los juegos de verdad que atraviesan ese discurso, problematizando conceptos y sentidos naturalizados. Se utilizó como corpus de investigación los artículos publicados por la Revista Brasileña de Psicoanálisis en el período de 1980 a 2010. Se evidenció que los enunciados de la familia tradicional, de la universalidad del complejo de Edipo, de la amenaza del anti-Edipo y de la raíz filogenética forman parte de la red discursiva del psicoanálisis tradicional. Esta, por su vez, puede ser pensada como estructurada por las mismas bases del discurso del cristianismo, destacándose los enunciados de la culpa y de la fatalidad. Se resalta en ese contexto el enunciado de homosexualidad remitiendo a una connotación de anomalía dentro del discurso psicoanalítico. Se infiere que la homosexualidad, si inserida en el constructo teórico analizado como equivalente a la heterosexualidad, afectaría la red discursiva del psicoanálisis tradicional, una vez que la misma es producto y reitera el dispositivo de la sexualidad, que afirma la heterosexualidad como norma.