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In this paper, we propose to account how people in prostitution have been educated in the field of sexuality, both in family and in school. Institutions which produce, reproduce and maintain the social order established by the patriarchal culture, which is ruled by patters that define man and women's roles. Therefore, those who adopt different gender identities than acceptable are morally rejected; consequently, trans people have to resort to prostitution as the only possible activity performed by their gender. These reflections are part of a research on transsexuals in prostitution in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, which uses as its instrument collection data of life stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the representations and cinema narrative models around two topics, women and violence, in a period from the forties to the present day. It is a contemporary look that aims to identify the speech, the repertoire and the main dimensions filmed in movies that include scenes about the topic just described. The aim of this study is to propose a reflection and a discussion around the role of cinema as a transmitting agent of violence against women, in movies that are not about violence. Through content analysis of different types of movie genres, from an evolutionary and comparative perspective, and limited to films that are not violent per se, we analyze male violence against women from physical and verbal nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender mainstreaming suggests institutional reorganization and/or "mainstreaming" of gender at the university. Betting on institutionalization as part of a government policy that requires institutional commitment and the responsibility of all university powers by the advancement of equality between women and men. For certain approaches in the feminist movement, it represents the handling of a struggle in the very long term tension that cannot be bounded exclusively to the enunciation of instances nominal or degraded resource allocation without achieving larger structural changes and prone to genuine equality (Palomar, 2009; Pérez, 2010; Alonso, 2010). Therefore, in this paper seeks to explain the extent to which the proposal or mainstreaming should not own the feminist struggle. The reflection is located in the plane of the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala (UATX), for it challenges facing the institutionalization of gender are presented, based on the following questions: Does the University have a need to mainstream a gender perspective? And, if so, what elements allow this initiative? And, what elements constrain it? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a genealogy of educational and occupational aspirations, based on the desires of two generations of rural children of Ayacucho. Taking the region's recent turbulent and violent history into account, and other recent structural social changes, the research shows how the aspirations change between both generations, paying special attention to gender differences. Terciary education becomes the most wanted future, while peasant activities almost disappear from desired future lives; in addition, in poorer households girls keep higher aspirations than their male peers. Despite all this, hard evidence shows that tertiary education is rarely reached in Ayacucho, and women still have less opportunity to access and finish secondary and tertiary education. Therefore, this genealogy of desires not only should be seen as a social construction, but also as an expression of voice and agency, where social hierarchies are questioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a reflection about the discrimination we exert through language in different cultures. Most of the time, we do not realise of that situation because many of these linguistic facts seem to be normal for us due to, among many other reasons, the acceptance of the grammar rules. There are some references to the differences of usage of daily words and their connotations, and some suggestions are given in order to change the usage of certain structures to make language more inclusive. Finally, there is an invitation to think over the possibility of change of attitude to finish with such expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the processes of transition experienced by young men and women as a privileged field for identifying elements of permanence and change in relation to schooling processes, professional insertion models and the emergence of new varieties of family emancipation. Taking a biographical approach to transition as the point of departure, some results of previous studies made by the GRET are presented and compared with the results of the Catalonia 2002 Survey on Young People. This allows us a glimpse at dominant and emerging professional insertion models in relation to models that are recessive at the present time. One of the major changes detected in relation to insertion models refers to the increase in qualification levels among young women and the fact that they are working in more qualified jobs, in comparison with their male counterparts. However, these changes survive with the old forms of employment inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]