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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. R. Bruce Bickley, Florida State University, college of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (Jan. 19, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 272-293). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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To get a deeper understanding of mothers own experiences this bachelor thesis will investigate mothers' perceptions of her own motherhood and the characteristics of a good versus a bad mother based on themes of class and femininity , parenthood and identity. This will be examined on the basis of questions about what is a good versus bad mother and how this dichotomisation affect mothers in the role of mother. Through breif interviews in two places with different socioeconomical background the informants, moms with children under 24 months visiting open preschool, expressed their view on motherhood and how to find new knowledge. The results show that mothers obtains knowledge from various forums , depending on the socio-economic status , but that the mothers preferred to discuss with other parents to share experiences and tips.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-17T15:01:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1008443 bytes, checksum: ca3a0afcd4665a284c0a66ea55c60ba1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This thesis aims at analyzing motherhood as the living of re-enchantment by the sacred, in an African-Brazilian root tale for children and youth , and confront the emptiness relegated to women in the history of humanity, especially black women, seen as element of breeding to increase male power. To analyze the corpus of this research, many paths were gone through, for dealing with an African-Brazilian root literature, since both in schools as in the public and private libraries have failed to incorporate this literature in their collections. After several searches in libraries, reading rooms, tallow cultural fairs and book publishers, some books by African descent writers were found, among which was the tale Ulomma: the house of beauty, which tells the story of motherhood a black woman. Then the corpus of this research was addresse d exactly about the re-enchantment of the sacredness of motherhood. The adopted methodology followed in the direction of qualitative, critical aproach and analysis of content. To compose the theoretical framework were discussed classical and contemporary authors, in several areas of knowledge, since the object of study, interweave interdisciplinary dialogues among Literature, History, Religion and Education, in a perspective to help combat racism, and to contribute to increase the visibility of black women in the history of mankind. The achieved results in this study point to the need to include more and more, at schools, the African-Brazilian root literature for children and youth in order to deconstruct old stereotypes and racial prejudices. Therefore, this research suggests clues that other studies address this rich literatu re in lessons and open spaces for the re-enchantment of the sacred rite of passage to motherhood. / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal analisar a maternidade como vivência de reencantamento pelo sagrado, em um conto infanto-juvenil de matriz afro-brasileira, e problematizar o vazio relegado às mulheres na história da humanidade, em especial a mulher negra, vista como elemento de procriação para elevar o poder masculino. Dentre os livros de escritores afro-descendentes escolhemos o conto Ulomma: a casa da beleza, do nigeriano Sunday Ikechukwu Nkeechi, porque aborda o reencantamento do sagrado na maternidade, a partir da história de uma rainha negra que, ao engravidar, passou por muitos desafios nesse rito de passagem. Delimitado, então, o corpus desta investigação, iniciamos a análise do conto e o levantamento dos suportes teóricos necessários para sua compreensão. A metodologia adotada seguiu na direção da abordagem qualitativa, crítica e na análise de conteúdo. Para compor o suporte teórico, foram abordados autores clássicos e contemporâneos, em várias áreas de conhecimento, uma vez que, no objeto de estudo, entrelaçam-se diálogos interdisciplinares entre Literatura, História, Religião e Educação, na perspectiva de combater o racismo e contribuir para aumentar a visibilidade da mulher negra na história da humanidade. Os resultados alcançados nesta pesquisa sinalizam para a necessidade de incluir cada vez mais, no cotidiano escolar, a literatura infanto-juvenil de matriz afro-brasileira para desconstruir antigos estereótipos e preconceitos raciais. Portanto, esta pesquisa sinaliza para que outros trabalhos contemplem esta literatura rica em ensinamentos e abra espaços para o reencantamento do sagrado no rito de passagem da maternidade.

Orientador: Maria de Fátima Salum Moreira / Banca: Renata Maria Coimbra Libório / Banca: Claudia Pereira Vianna / Resumo: Esta dissertação de mestrado se insere na Linha de Pesquisa "Processos Formativos, Diferença e Valores", em uma vertente comprometida com estudos sobre os saberes, práticas e representações que permeiam as relações escolares, considerando-se, de forma particular, os aspectos referentes às questões de gênero, sexualidade, classe, raça e geração. A pesquisa tem como objeto o estudo das trajetórias afetivo-sexuais de seis jovens estudantes do Ensino Médio de uma escola da periferia urbana de Presidente Prudente/SP, com idade entre 15 e 18 anos. Interessa aos estudos em educação, preocupados com o formação para a vida sexual do(a)s jovens, o reconhecimento de todos os elementos envolvidos com a vivência da sexualidade. Considera-se que, entre estes, existe um aspecto pouco privilegiado nas investigações: aqueles que são referidos aos sentimentos, emoções, desejos e idealizações dos indivíduos. Portanto, objetivou-se tomar o contexto das emoções como elemento central na análise das experiências afetivo-sexuais vividas por essas jovens, o que implicou a interpretação dos significados que cabem aos sentimentos, sonhos e idealizações em torno da maternidade e do amor romântico. Estes foram relacionados com as suas declarações acerca de seus comportamentos, práticas e projetos de vida. A iniciação sexual e afetiva, em suas modalidades do ficar, do namoro, da primeira vez, da gravidez, da vida conjugal e do casamento foram focos especiais de atenção no caminho da pesquisa. Foram utilizados os referenciais teóricos dos estudos sócio-históricos e culturais, para interpretar as múltiplas possibilidades de viver e pensar a experiência amorosa, em um lugar e tempo sócio-históricos determinados. / Abstract: The present Master's Dissertation concerns the Research Line in Formative Processes: Differences and Values to a field committed to the knowledge, practice and representations involving school relations which, in a particular way, accounts the concepts concerned to gender, sexuality, class, race and generation issues. The aim of this work is to study the affective-sexual pathways of six High School young students from an urban periphery of Presidente Prudente, SP, with ages between 15 to 18 years. Concerned with the sexual maturation of the young students, the recognizing of all issues connected with the experience of sexuality is of interest within educational studies. Among them, less privileged aspects of the study were considered; the ones related to feelings, emotions, desires and idealization of individuals. Therefore, the context of emotions was regarded as a main element for the affective-sexual experience analysis experienced by these young girls leading to the interpretation of feelings, dreams and idealizations related to motherhood and romantic love issues, further regarded to their statements in behavior, practices and projects of life. The relationship-sexual initiation towards its modalities of personal relationships; making out, dating, first sexual experience, pregnancy, marital life and marriage were specially highlighted in this study. Theoretical references from socio-historical and cultural studies were used to explain the multiple possibilities for the living and thinking concerning sexual experience within a given socio-historical time and place. Methodological procedures of this study are connected to qualitative approaches of ethnographic nature, and questionnaires, records of direct observations in field notebook and semi-structured interviews are regarded as data collection basic tools. Results obtained in the present study show that juvenile sexuality had been reported as a learning process concerning the emotional. / Mestre