O objetivo desta pesquisa de doutorado é compreender os distintos significados do que é ser uma professora lésbica no ambiente escolar. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, e de perspectiva sociológica, que dialoga com estudos nacionais e internacionais já realizados sobre o tema, com base no debate sobre gênero, sexualidades e heteronormatividade. Foram entrevistadas seis professoras da rede pública (estadual ou municipal) de São Paulo, estando elas em atividade em três cidades: São Paulo, Diadema e Praia Grande. A partir de um roteiro semiestruturado, a pesquisa teve por objetivo compreender como essas docentes lidam com essa informação de suas vidas pessoais no ambiente escolar e quais seus principais obstáculos e medos. Os resultados da investigação mostram que, no lugar de uma invisibilidade suposta inicialmente, ganhou destaque a busca de uma visibilidade pedagógica, ou de uma tentativa consciente de construir uma possibilidade de existência legítima no ambiente escolar. Trata-se de um ser e estar na escola como docente que, por si só, traz uma aspiração e uma realização pedagógicas: a de construir uma visibilidade que garanta legitimidade para a existência lésbica. / The purpose of this doctoral research is to understand the different meanings of being a lesbian teacher in the school environment. It is a qualitative research and, of a sociological perspective, it dialogues with national and international studies already carried out on the subject, based on the debate on gender, sexualities and heteronormativity. Six public school teachers (state or municipal) from São Paulo were interviewed while they were teaching in three cities: São Paulo, Diadema and Praia Grande. From a semi-structured script, the research aimed to understand how these teachers deal with this information of their personal lives in the school environment and what your obstacles and fears would be. The results of the research show that, instead of an invisibility, initially supposed, the search for a pedagogical visibility, or a conscious attempt to construct a legitimate possibility of existence in the school environment, was highlighted. Wich means that being in a school as a teatcher, brings, itself, a pedagogical aspiration and a accomplishment: building a visibility that guarantees legitimacy for the lesbian existence.

A homossexualidade feminina tem, na atualidade, maior visibilidade nos espaços midiáticos num processo indicativo de mudanças acerca do tema que emerge da intimidade para o debate na esfera pública. Esse processo mobiliza questionamentos na sociedade sobre normalidade e anormalidade das orientações sexuais bem como de suas representações sociais. Verificar, compreender e examinar como as lésbicas utilizam a comunicação mediada por computador é o objetivo deste trabalho que se detém na análise das narrativas para avaliar a interação comunicacional, as redes de socialidade e solidariedade e a afirmação identitária. Neste percurso são vistos a atuação individual e do movimento lésbico por mudanças nos direitos de cidadania dentro da esfera pública virtual: o ciberespaço. / The visibility of woman homossexuality on media space indicates a changing process about this theme on public shpere. This fact sets questions about normality and abnormality of sexual orientations and also about the lesbians' social representations. Verifying ,understanding and examine how those women use the computer-mediated communication is the purpose of this study. Narrative analyses are the method used to evaluate the communicational interaction, the lesbian identity and the lesbian movement actions in the changing process citizenship in the virtual public shpere: the cyberspace.

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2014-12-23T11:20:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Daniela Maroja Ribeiro - 2014.pdf: 3401837 bytes, checksum: c81c379dfd89d0ab6c273938bd160e8f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-01-26T13:00:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Daniela Maroja Ribeiro - 2014.pdf: 3401837 bytes, checksum: c81c379dfd89d0ab6c273938bd160e8f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-01-26T13:00:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Daniela Maroja Ribeiro - 2014.pdf: 3401837 bytes, checksum: c81c379dfd89d0ab6c273938bd160e8f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation, through an interdisciplinary approach, analyzes the relation between the minority attribute of lesbianism and thwarted access to citizenship experienced by lesbian women in Goiás. In order to achieve it, the field of Human Rights is taken from its theoretical and structural bases to carry out the proposed discussions. A major focus is given to the tension between conservative discourses of Human Rights, which consolidate practices of selectivity / restriction to certain minority groups (among them are lesbians) and the empowered and liberating speeches submitted by interlocutors who were interviewed. Along with the same tension and ambivalence, this dissertation includes a discussion of the ethical and moral dimension of the otherness detachment of “the other”. The aim was to discuss the 'human' category qualifiers and its implications on the perception and / or the experience of citizenship. Special attention was given to the potential for agency and redefinition of citizenship by interlocutors. The issues were brought to the context of a lesbian militancy in Goiás, which were analyzed to draw forth a specific reality, namely, the representatives of the militant group Colcha de Retalhos - UFG Saindo do Armário; and Alego - Lesbian Association of Goiás. Furthermore, it is important to mention that we did not discard the voices of interlocutors that echoed from elsewhere, and voluntarily contributed to their knowledge. / Essa dissertação, por meio de uma abordagem interdisciplinar, analisa a relação entre o atributo minoritário da lesbianidade e a obstaculização do acesso à cidadania, vivenciada por mulheres lésbicas em Goiás. Para tanto, o campo dos Direitos Humanos é tomado a partir de suas bases teóricas e estruturais para a realização das discussões propostas. Um importante enfoque dado é à tensão entre discursos de direitos humanos, capazes de consolidar práticas de seletividade / restrição a determinados grupos minoritários (dentre os quais as lésbicas se encontram) e discursos empoderados e libertadores apresentados pelas interlocutoras que foram entrevistadas. Com a mesma tensão e ambivalência, esta dissertação abarca uma discussão sobre a dimensão ético-moral desse despojamento da alteridade do “outro”. O objetivo foi discutir qualificativos da categoria ‘humano’ e suas implicações para a percepção e/ou vivência da cidadania. Uma atenção especial foi dada ao potencial de agência e ressignificação do conceito de cidadania pelas interlocutoras. As questões foram levadas ao contexto de uma militância lésbica goiana, para que fossem analisadas à luz de uma realidade específica, qual seja, a de militantes representantes do Grupo Colcha de Retalhos – a UFG saindo do armário; e da Alego – Associação das Lésbicas de Goiás. Destaque-se que não descartamos vozes de interlocutoras que ecoaram de outros lugares e que, voluntariamente, contribuiram com seu conhecimento.

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2016-10-04T13:31:01Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Priscila Marília Martins - 2015.pdf: 1279252 bytes, checksum: 24a4b6833309bed0ba47057dc08f2633 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2016-10-04T13:31:27Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Priscila Marília Martins - 2015.pdf: 1279252 bytes, checksum: 24a4b6833309bed0ba47057dc08f2633 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-04T13:31:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Priscila Marília Martins - 2015.pdf: 1279252 bytes, checksum: 24a4b6833309bed0ba47057dc08f2633 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Amongst documents depicting regulations and policies of representation, the way some public bodies operate the intersectionalities of the perspectives along with the even defeated enlargement of sexual rights conception, may lead not only to constraint, identity stereotypes, biological determinism, but also perilous essentialisms and violence causing political and existential deletions of women willing to share their lives, sexuality, emotions and other possibilities of intimate relationship with one another. Having said that, compulsory heterosexuality - a great will on sexuality - continues to ban or even silence, in official speeches, the lesbian-desiring voices and to confine them into multiple jails. Thus, through documental analysis of some aspects of the National Plan of Penitentiary Policies (2011), the National Policies Plan for Womens (2013-2015), and also Resolution nº 4 of 29 June 2011 the National Council on Criminal and Penitentiary Policies and joint Resolution nº 1 of 15 April 2014 of CNPCP and the National Council for Combating Discrimination-LGBT, we aimed to reveal the obstacles to effectiveness and regulation of lesbian inmate visits in Brazilian prisons. / Entre documentos que apresentam normativas e políticas de representação, o modo como certos organismos públicos operam com as perspectivas das interseccionalidades e o ainda hipossuficiente alargamento do que se concebe por direitos sexuais conduzem à rigidez e estereótipos identitários, a determinismos biológicos, a perigosos essencialismos e a violências que geram apagamentos políticos, existenciais, de mulheres que desejam compartilhar suas vidas, sexualidade, afetos e outras possibilidades de se relacionarem intimamente com uma outra. Tendo isto posto, a heterossexualidade compulsória – uma vontade de verdade sobre a sexualidade – segue a interditar ou mesmo silenciar, em discursos oficiais, as vozes lésbico desejantes e a as confinar em uma multiplicidade de cárceres. Assim, ao realizar aqui uma análise documental de alguns aspectos do Plano Nacional de Políticas Penitenciárias (2011), do Plano Nacional de Políticas para as Mulheres (2013-2015), e, ainda, da Resolução nº 4 de 29 de junho de 2011 do Conselho Nacional de Política Criminal e Penitenciária e da Resolução conjunta nº1 de 15 de abril de 2014 do CNPCP e do Conselho Nacional de Combate à Discriminação-LGBT, buscou-se apontar problemáticas à efetivação e regulamentação da visita íntima para lésbicas reclusas em estabelecimentos penais no Brasil.

Magister Legum - LLM / The protection of the rights of sexual minorities in Africa is a controversial issue. It is not unusual to find newspaper reports on gross violations suffered by this minority group. Gays and lesbians are victims of violence, sometimes resulting in death. Sexual minorities in Africa are often confronted with government actions such as those of the Nigerian government that recently submitted to the parliament a Bill to make provisions for the prohibition of relationships between persons of the same sex, celebration of marriage, registration of gay clubs and societies and publicity of same sex relationships. The objective of this study was to suggest possible legal protection and recognition of sexual minority rights under the African human rights system. / South Africa

This dissertation concerns how activists preserve particular feminisms in everyday life, particularly in this postmodern moment as advances in technology create virtual spaces, as feminism experiences generational shifts, and as notions about gender and bodies influence the discursive and political construction of contemporary activism and communities. The particular feminists at the center of this study are self-described radical feminists. While original theories allowed members to question the essentialism of bodies (i.e., sex class), this study focuses on the movement trajectory in which members critique how people assigned male at birth learn masculinity as inextricably tied to the oppression of women (i.e., sex caste). Using data from a historical newsletter and two current micro-blogs, I provide a textual analysis to understand how public narratives of gender and essentialism circulate in and are challenged by feminist (cyber)spaces. The results of this project suggest four important findings. First, in print and online, people use imagined and essential understandings of bodies where actual bodies are not present in order to exclude. Second, when text reflects the personal, lived experiences of community members, logic and emotion are better connected in the everyday. On the other hand, when lived actuality is abstracted, storytellers rely almost exclusively on logic to make claims. Third, while lesbian newsletter-writers of the past constructed a sexual identity, they did not take on the radical-feminist mandate to talk about sexual desire. Online, only the radical identity of the movement’s predecessor’s has persisted, while any discussions of sexual identity or pleasure are missing. Lastly, while radical and trans-identified feminists often find themselves at odds, this study suggests that perhaps their consciousness-raising practices are more similar than can be seen from the everyday. Both groups use poetry and creative writing as a way to make sense of their coming-out and being-out experiences amid cis- and hetero-normativity.

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The current case involves a female rape victim. Research has shown the level of victim blaming can be elevated if the victim is a lesbian woman compared to a heterosexual woman. Mock jurors’ responses to personality trait questionnaires (e.g., Belief in a Just World, Attitudes Toward Women, Attitudes Toward Lesbians) and amount of contact they have with homosexual people were employed as predictors of how they would decide victim blaming and perpetrator guilt. Personality trait findings were not good predictors; however, greater contact with homosexuals did decrease negative attitudes toward lesbian victims. Limitations and implications for future research are addressed.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2019 / South African has constitutional protection for the human rights of all its citizens. However, black lesbians in South Africa suffer physical, emotional and psychological abuse. This qualitative study aimed to elicit the social and emotional experiences of black lesbians living, as same-sex partners, in a township setting. The design of the study was exploratory in nature and used a purposive sample of ten couples (twenty women). The investigation was underpinned by Social domain theory (SDT) which allowed for an understanding of the judgements people make in different social settings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with each couple in order to collect data. The data were analysed using thematic content analysis (TCA) which gleaned ten themes namely, age and sexual orientation, suicide, education, lack of support, hate crimes, substance abuse, stigma, mental health, parenting and discrimination. In the discussion it was found that these themes echoed those in other local and international studies. However, corrective rape is peculiar to South Africa and was experienced by some participants in the study. In one case a brother, with the mother’s support raped his sister repeatedly. This took place in a country which has a progressive constitution and laws. Social norms in the township allows black lesbian couples to suffer this type of abuse and have daily experiences of discrimination and stigmatisation. Recommendations included a quantitative more far reaching study (as well as longitudinal studies) and more workshops and campaigns spreading knowledge about sexuality.

This thesis treats the relation of Kenyan non-heterosexual women to AIDS. It studies the ways in which women come to realise their non-heterosexuality and how consecutively they adopt the identity of lesbians or bisexuals. The thesis also describes how women construct non-heterosexual spaces where they can meet and support each other in a heterosexist society where homosexuality is criminalised and how association function as a strategy of fight against heterosexism. Last but not least, it is concerned with the question how women conceptualise their relationship to AIDS and the prevention of spread of HIV. The aim of the present thesis is to present the difficulties of negotiation of non-heterosexual identity in a culturally different environment. The analysis of the interviews shows that the stigmatisation of women's sexuality has practical consequences for the fight against AIDS. Key words: AIDS, gender, lesbians, bisexuals, heterosexism, homosexuality, Kenya