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This article presents an experience report about the difficulties faced by an undergraduate student of the bachelor's degree in Geography at the Federal Institute of Bahia (IFBA), to elaborate her final term paper, addressing the theme of gender issues, particularly on domestic violence against women. Given the need to seek for transforming and combating some conceptions rooted in this patriarchal, chauvinist, sexist and racist society, it is essential to put in the center of the academic discussions and reflections issues that afflict women, since the University is an important space for the deconstruction of paradigms. In this sense, this article aims to "provoke" Geography teachers and students to think/research on this subject. Such themes are not only important, but fundamental and should be treated/discussed in academic spaces, especially in the context of teacher training programs in Geography, which has as its object of study the geographical space and the relations between human beings and their environment. even demanding, therefore, that people who act as teachers be professionals prepared/formed to deconstruct "patriarchal" models and patterns that subdue and subjugate women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Societies, throughout history, have created codes with the aim of guiding relations between groups and people. In Brazil, manuals of etiquette and civility were used with the pretense of forming an emerging bourgeoisie, desirous of appearing good manners, especially in the early decades of the twentieth century. This article is a result of research on women's daily life from 1940 to 1960. Four civility and etiquette manuals were used as empirical sources, aiming at a historical review of aspects of women's life, in the context of Brazil, with the purpose of recovering a history based on invisibility. The analyzed manuals were consulted by elite women who mirrored themselves in them to perform behavioral roles in society and allowed to describe sparse fragments of women's lives by the large number of social rules that normalized their behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to highlight the characteristics of the development of the approach to study children, adolescents, and young individuals in the Brazilian geography field with a view on gender and sexualities. To achieve the aim, a survey was carried out including 28,838 papers that cover a period from 1939 to 2020, found in 98 online journals registered in the geography area by the QualisCapes System, referring to the fouryear period of evaluation by that institution, from 2013 to 2016. Such document set is part of the Brazilian Geography Observatory, and the keywords used in the survey were "youth", "young individual", "juvenile", "adolescent", and "child", which could appear in the title, abstract, or keywords sections. The search generated a set of 492 papers that was analyzed regarding time, theme, and authorship. The methodology used was social network analysis (SNA) aided by the software Gephi. Our results showed that children, adolescents, and young individuals were studied mainly regarding education, sociability, field, and urban violence aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the understanding of gender in the scientific production on racial identity in the Brazilian geography. To achieve this goal, a survey was carried out at the Brazilian Geography Observatory, which currently has 25,437 catalogued papers from 1939 to 2019. The keywords that guided the search were: raça, racialidade, negro, negritude, etnicidade, etnia, quilombo, quilombola, indígena, comunidade tradicional, originária, índio, étnicoracial, movimento negro and Lei 10.639 (race, racial identity, black people, blackness, ethnicity, ethnic origin, quilombo, quilombola, indigenous people, traditional community, origin, indigenous person, ethnicracial, black movement, and the Law 10,639). Four hundred and fiftytwo papers were found. Gender characteristics in the authorship were explored, as well as the institutional origin and the impact factor of the publications using the H index. The results evidenced a male predominance in the authorship on racial identities, and also showed that the discussion has been mainly developed in the centerwest and southeast of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sex as a leisure practice has been the object of study of researchers interested in understanding the social dynamics of sex in the relationships between tourists and residents. This paper presents the female experience (cisgender, transgender, and transvestites) in the tourist destination Natal, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, on webpages of escort agencies. Through netnography, it was possible to identify the dynamics of these sex professionals when serving tourists in Natal, as well as their characteristics and experiences. Among the results, we highlight the social stigma around prostitution and the virtual sex showcases as an important business tool, both for sex professionals and tourists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first wave of LGBTQI+ people to become politicized and visible has already aged. However, despite the achievements in terms of rights, visibility and politicization, LGBTQI+ elders have been relegated to the margins of activist, militant discourses and mediatized sociocultural representations of this population sector. Therefore, in this paper I trace the routes to elucidate the strategies employed by 3 gay men to cope with violence and discrimination based on their age and sexual orientation. I suggest the premise that the reclusion of old age in the home has turned the house into a small territory for older homosexual individuals from where they confront heteropatriarchal and ageist violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a didactic proposal to be applied in the second cycle of basic education in Chile, in which a feminist geographical perspective is integrated into the approach to some socioenvironmental conflicts in Latin America. This is the result of an investigation focused on the articulation between geography teaching, feminism, and socioenvironmental conflicts in the context of the Chilean curriculum. To achieve this aim, some theoretical discussions are developed around feminist geography, socioenvironmental conflicts, and geographical education. Next, a didactic proposal addressing different socioenvironmental conflicts is presented. Finally, some initial conclusions are shared regarding the potentialities and challenges to be tackled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper was to investigate Lorna Washington's life path. She was a transformist artist of great relevance in the LGBTQIA+ artistic world considering her life as a work of art. The most important facts of her life trajectories were his affirmation as a man, gay, activist, and crossdressing artist, in an ongoing effort to assert her art as an expression of her life. Our study sought to address her life experience as a scientific historical fact insofar as she was considered a subject of knowledge, from the perspective of the ecologies of knowledge, without exact chronological concern, but rather presenting the facts as events on the surface of the space to highlight her strategies and tactics of insertion into everyday life as cultural resistance and territorial political experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the birth of lesbian geographies, the work in this field has been mostly developed in Western countries or from the efforts of few lesbian geographers to invite and incorporate works from various countries. There are not enough works from Mexico to enrich this branch of geography both nationally and internationally. Given this situation, it is urgent to make lesbian women and their spatiality more visible. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to address issues related to the lesbofeminist position within the country to initiate this necessary visibility of lesbians in the Mexican territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the intersections between activism and the academia. Based on an analysis of academic practices and knowledge production, it aims to highlight the hegemonies existing in the academia and the way the power installed in institutions is clearly political, has color and ideology. It analyzes particularly issues related to gender studies, the resistance that exists and the negative reactions to their development that have arisen all over the world. Reflections on the potential of the intersections between activism and the academia are presented, with some examples of initiatives in the field of gender studies in Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of the study carried out on the Quilombo de Dandara Collective (Coletivo Quilombo de Dandara), located in Presidente Prudente, which established a Slam Poetry space in the city center. The objective was to understand the Slam educational processes and their relationships with school knowledge, as well as analyze its spatiality in relation to the broader processes of urban space production. Through the interviews, we accessed the life trajectories of the Collective members, their intersections and intertwining, their spatial practices, and their educational role. The Collective educates, by discussing topics such as racism and sexism, by welcoming multiple manifestations, by giving the floor to those who normally have no voice, and by connecting with other educational contexts that form an alternative political and cultural circuit in the city. Therefore, it is possible to think of the Quilombo of Dandara Collective as an insurgent spatial practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tackles interactions between two fields of study since the 1960's. On the one hand, it presents academic production about sexual minorities in Mexico City, in order to observe how it integrates spatial variables; on the other hand, it studies in which forms urban studies have incorporated sexual minorities as an object of analysis. The first part of this paper describes academic works that have been produced about sexual minorities and illustrates the increasing weight of geographic aspects in the understanding of their practices and identities; whereas the second part offers a reading of those references to pay attention to the discussions and results related to contemporaneous metropolitan processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to outline the phenomenon of violence against women during the Covid19 pandemic in the states of the Brazilian Northern region. The discussion is based on the theoretical contributions of feminist geography and intersectionality, and on the sociohistorical and cultural aspects that help to compose the studied scenario. Bibliographic research was carried out on websites, official bulletins and scientific works, and the results and discussions developed showed lack of information, which denounces the silencing of northern women including its particularities according to space, culture and descriptors of race, class and gender, which were intensified by the changes resulting from the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the particularities of feminicide cases in the state of Piauí during the context of the pandemic, observing the space of the house as a scenery of power relations and production of lethal violence. In the analysis, we observed combinations of categories present in feminine experiences and the circumstances that result in death. The study was built up combining qualitative and quantitative approaches: we used statistical analysis to have a general view of feminicides and carried out document analysis of police reports and other initial documents that compose the police inquiries that investigate feminicides, to access their qualitative elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I analyse the role of prostitution in creating the image of the city of Amsterdam. The presence of prostitution in the city, mainly since its flourishing in the 1970s as a sex industry, was fundamental to create the image of Amsterdam as a liberal and progressive city m the international tourism market. This specific industry helped to attract tourists interested m the Red Light District not only because of the sex work but also for the consumption of the image that was attached to it. Then I highlight the contradictions involving prostitution m Amsterdam from the perspective of urbanism to demonstrate that recent actions aim at changing the city's image. In conclusion. I show that prostitution is a constant battleground as there is a plethora of political and economic interests regarding this neighbourhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Greece is a country that considers itself to be part of the Western civilization, though still a lot oriental elements exist in its culture and way of thinking. LGBT people are considered to be either invisible or pointed out as metaphorical or literal punch bag. So it was a surprise that a year after the first Athens Gay Pride (2005), two greek movies appeared with homosexuality as their central theme. The first one 'The Blue Dress', a drama about the journey of a young boy till he turns into a woman, won six national cinema awards. The second one 'Straight Story', a comedy about a world were homosexuality is the normative and heterosexuality is the 'not normal', was the biggest box office success of the year. This paper uses the stereotypes portrayed in these two films in order to explore the spatial dimension of being gay in Greece. Both films place queer subjects in their narrative in a stereotyped even offensive way, but at the same point offer a very accurate image of how 'homosexuality' is perceived in Greece. Issues that become more and more obvious during the rise of the extreme right organizations and their entrance in the Greek parliament and the violence against gay men. The way these two films explore the subject of being gay in Greece, shows the difficulties of placing the 'queer' in public and raise a series of questions of the space available for different sexualities. By analyzing these two films the paper shows how space is constructed regarding LGTB people and the limits created by a strong religious and patriarchic tradition reflected in the heteronormative and homonormative systems of this country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, centered in Portuguese sex education, the importance and relevance of the implementation of an embodied sex education is discussed. The evolution of the sex education curriculum is analysed, particularly in what concerns paradigms, discourses and practices. The work presented in this paper analyses how bodies are addressed in the current sex education curriculum, focusing on the following questions: Does the elementary schools curriculum include an embodied approach to sex education in Portugal? How can human bodies be approached in a holistic and inclusive way, which is also situated in elementary school children's everyday spaces? A case study is presented to illustrate an embodied approach to sex education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a first theoretical approach, trying to draw some lines and notes that may be relevant in order to think the transnational migration of trans1 people. Throughout this paper, therefore, we propose some possible linkages between notions 'such as 'frontier' and 'journey', that drawn through bodily geographies and gender linked to the question of citizenship, and allow us to think about the movement and identity (re)definition that trans-migrant individuals develop through these multiple dimensional migrations. What are we thinking when we question on transmigration and trans-migrant subjects?, Are the notions of travel and border useful and/or fit to reflect on this phenomenon of trans-migration? Is it possible to similarly think geographical migrations and gender ones, as travels and personal itineraries (ESTEBAN, 2004), involved in trading processes and transport of belongings and changing of identity positions, and which relationships can be found between national borders and physical boundaries of gender? Which role performs the body in the space of representation and practice of citizenship and its relationship to gender and ethnic-national and social class origins? It is around those issues that this work developed, with the intention to be a first approach to propositions that could be interesting in order to think about and outline new questions that could the complex relationship among corporeality, gender, immigration status and citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the different meanings given to gender by men involved in domestic violence in the municipality of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil. To reach this objective, a group dynamics was carried out with nineteen men convicted of domestic violence, whose sentence includes taking part in a course organized by the non-governmental organization 'Melhor Viver' (Better Living), where they must reflect upon acts, values and ideas that generate violence against women. With legal authorization and the support of a professional in the psychology area, a focus group dynamics was developed, inspired in the idea put forward by Selltiz et al. (1987), in which the representations of masculinity, femininity, family and domestic spaces were discussed, classified and recorded. The research evidenced the permanence of traditional gender values that praise men as workers and family providers, and portray desirable women as those that fulfil the role of welcoming and maternity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we seek to understand the power relations in the virtual space, thought as more than abstractions, since they interfere with multiple social media. As this question is still little explored by geographical studies, we intend to clarify how the cyberspace relates to the territories of transvesti prostitution on Augusto Severo Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, analyzing for this the presence of t-lovers, by means of new dynamics of concealment in the spatial experience of non-hegemonic masculinities. Finally, we aim to establish a correlation between the virtual and the real worlds, based on the existing power relations between t-lovers and travestis, pointing out how these two spatial dimensions interact with each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work has as its central purpose to investigate the gender category and its approach in the Latin American Journal of Geography and Gender, aiming to analyze the scientific productions of this journal between 2010 and 2019. It adopts a qualitative approach, and the documentary and bibliographic research as its methodology. The selection of papers resulted in a total of twelve articles, which were evaluated and distributed in the categories of Education and Geography Teaching. From the analyses, it was concluded that it is indispensable to work with the theme of gender within geography studies. The social essay of these studies allows students to understand the different forms of local empowerment by different social groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a descriptive cross-sectional study in which closed questionnaires were supplied to a population of 44 women participants of Workshop No.43, "Women and Habitat", of the XXXIII National Meeting of Women (Argentina), held on July 13th-15th at Chubut, that aimed to identify 1) the predominant conceptualization of street sexual harassment and its correlation with the definitions established both in current laws and in provincial bills; 2) the formal responses required from the State; and 3) the measures to be adopted in the face of acts of sexual street harassment in relation to the victimizer. The sampling was non-probability of the casual type, therefore it will lack representativeness. Participants were given a questionnaire consisting of three demographic questions (age, province and city of origin, and gender identity) and five closed questions that were aimed at evaluating 1) the definition of the predominant street sexual harassment; 2) the consideration degree of the phenomenon as a security problem; 3) the existence of a requirement for State intervention in the matter; 4) the type of measures that are demanded from the State, should its intervention be considered necessary; and 5) the type of sanction that should be imposed on the perpetrators if it is considered as a contravention of the law or as a criminal act that requires a punitive response from the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify the meanings of the female emancipation from the perspective or their insertion in solidarity economy, by means of living experiences and narratives by the participant black women in Ganga Zumba and Herdeiros do Banzo groups at Comunidade Quilombola de Fátima, in Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais. These organizations seek to strengthen, through different activities, spaces of discussion and information that are related to ethnicracial questions. The research was done via documental analyses and semistructured interviews. The main conclusions of the study are: women who participate of these initiatives have their trajectory marked by discrimination; and the participation in those ventures allows a resignification of their social relations and their empowerment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to analyze the conceptions that the trans feminized people themselves have about prostitution, as well as to describe the situations they go through in such context. For this purpose, we worked with in-depth interviews from an ethnographic approach in an attempt to know the most real context where these events happen. It should be noted that this work is part of a broader process that is within the framework of a master's thesis. Trans- feminized persons enter the activity as a last resort to obtain money due to the discrimination they face as well as the exclusion from the family and educational environment and the impossibility of being employed in another activity because of their identity. In the street, where they offer their services, they represent their identity as they wish, but they also experience all types of violence. The only place they can find support is in civil society organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze from a gender perspective how the process of insertion of Haitians that migrated to Brazil after the earthquake of 2010 occurred in the Brazilian job market. The theoretical background portrays the origins and causes of the migration movements and then discusses the process of migration, work and gender. The results indicated that the main positions occupied by women when they arrive in Brazil are in general services. Most men only manage to get manual jobs in awful working conditions and the women's situation is even more delicate as they face great difficulties in finding work that is flexible to take and pick up children in day care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an account of the experience of the academic trajectory of a trans and black woman and aims to examine the challenges of inclusion and permanence experienced within the academic space. This paper does not aim to affirm that all trans and black women undergo the same situations, but rather to reflect on how these experiences can act as mechanisms of oppression, resulting, for the trans woman, in feelings of weakness and discouragement. My research is largely based on selfethnography, understood here as a writing method which allows to study researcher's personal experience, opposing the hegemonic discourses that exclude the experiences of self, and stands in the perspective of objectresearcher, and still keeping the distancing between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The question of maternity has been a main issue in feminist debates. The aim of this paper is to show how lesbian maternities put into question the concept of mother and maternity. Based on an autoethnography, we want to show (i) that the place of the nongestational mother is a 'noplace' and source of hermeneutic injustice, (ii) that the familiar bonds are conceived as a connection among genetics, biology, breastfeeding and upbringing and (iii) that there are multiple forms of discrimination and institutional violence (legal and medical) against nonnormative maternities. We also argue that lesbian maternities open new possibilities with respect to the concept of maternity, to the creation of new upbringing roles that are not previously and normatively established and to questioning sexual division of labor and gender roles in raising children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Where are the lesbians?". Based on the remark that lesbian women are often too invisible both in the history and in the public spaces, this paper explore their presence through history and space. An Ltour is an experience through the city of Brussels, Belgium, that allows the participants to discover this European capital under different eyes. This article invites the readers to virtually walk with the authors through the 1970s until today, exploring official and unofficial stories that made and make lesbians existing and being present as historical and political subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a study about the way of life of a place, by means of an analysis of the life story of Lady Lenil, a sage woman who was a collaborator of this research. The article is guided by the conception of cure relations as a manifestation of the encantaria traditionally practiced in the community of Aritapera Cove. It is characterized as a qualitative research and resorts to the phenomenology method. As for methodology, we performed a field research and a participant research to make the record of Lady Lenil's life story, in which we could observe the relations between the place and these practices and their interrelations with the rites and myths established as cultural markers of the community, which in turn affirm the identity of this riverine settlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The different urban spaces that define the Mexican metropolis give us a musical collage: music in the metro wagon, in the bus, in the streets or avenues with walking singers or musicians; different sound landscapes like the gasman, the trash truck bell, the tamalero, the second-hand clothes seller and many others. Music in urban spaces could contribute in the way we can perceive a place. Simmel says that the new ways to perceive and live in big cities are determined by technical transformations (in DI FELICE, 2012). In that sense, music is being immersed in that technical transformations, so it can affect in the way of how we can perceive places and also in the way of how we live and interact with other people. One example is the process of social interaction that happens during the displacement, movement and settlement of teenagers who call themselves reggaetoneros on the Nacional Street and the Morelos station entrance of the Colective Sistem of Transport of Mexico City. The purpose of this paper is to share some results of my research about the transformations that have happened at the Morelos station and Nacional Street since combos reggaetoneros and their music - reggaeton - show up; where social interactions, uses, senses and tensions arise in this urban spaces. As well as inquire into this continuous mobility that combos have to do by different metro stations in the city, turning them into musical nomads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses narrative reconstructions of the mother figure, based on an interview with three generations of women. The first group, or first generation, was born in the decades of 1920/1930. The second group is formed by women born in the decades of 1940/1950. The third group is composed of women born in the 1960s and 1970s. It should be noted that the interviews were conducted with childless women, so the analysis focused on the figures of the interviewees' mothers. The debate is theoretically based on the discussions from gender studies, as well as on reflections about the re-significance of women's memory. Through the analysis of the interviews, it was possible to verify different idealizations about motherhood, which reflected the female memories about their own mothers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the relationships between projects for women in the federal program Territórios da Cidadania (TC) and changes that occurred in the participation of women candidates and elected to the position of city councilor in the 2008 and 2012 elections in these regions. The paper focuses the analysis on application records, electoral results and electoral financing networks. The sources of data and information were collected on the Ministério de Desenvolvimento Agrário website, which was then responsible for the program Territórios da Cidadania, and on the website of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE). Supplementary data on municipalities were also obtained from the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). The data were organized in the form of a database and prepared for the generation of files of networks that were submitted to Gephi social network analysis software. The results show a considerable increase in women's political-electoral participation in TC above the national average as candidates and a timid increase in the number of women occupying council seats in the municipalities studied. To analyze these changes are used the positioning of the candidates in the financing networks and the changes in the profile of these women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to discuss the genderification1 of educational and curricular policies for Youth and Adult Education in the state education network of the state of Paraíba after the advances of conservatism in the national and international scenario. We analyzed Law No. 10,488, dated June 23, 2015 and the Operational Guidelines for the Operation of Schools of the State Education Network from 2012 to 2017. For the development of the study we chose as theoretical contributions authors such as Silva (1994); Gentili (1995); Research Papers (1997); Peroni (2003); Oliveira (2000); Freitas (2012); Bowe, Ball and Gold (1992); Ball (1989, 1994) and Ball, Maguire e Braun (2016). The studies and researches of these last authors are part of our epistemological microscope for carrying out analyzes on the educational policies that provoked the educational reforms in England and unfolded in the world scene. We argue that this perspective of educational policy analysis directs our understanding in political times marked by the expansion of conservatism and fundamentalism. Thus, neglecting the issues inherent in diversity strengthens its invisibility in the educational spaces of education professionals, widening a space for the promotion of conservative thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines academic works which study spaces of socialization and meeting of both homo and bisexual men, according to the notion of'visibility', discussing the uses of this term in literature. It argues that the growth of LGBT commerce is not linked to a major political or social visibility of sexual minorities in comparison with the past, and that the concentration rate is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition to get a real access to sexual minorities rights. In order to understand the problematics linked to visibility and experiences of sexual minorities in the city, it's necessary to analyze those spaces, places and actors of the sexuality's construction in urban, historic and social local contexts in which sexual minorities are acting, interacting, and presenting themselves; considering the great variety that exists within the homo-erotic expressions and homo-socialization forms, and the complexity of the socio-ethnic-sexual identities that participate in the relation with urban area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To present the Queer perspective is to act in a provocative and challenging way, especially when we, agents and professional psychologists who operate in the correctional environment, are transfixed by its impetuous and sagacious power. Transvestite bodies of subjects convicted in the prison system, who are stigmatized as wicked or obscene bodies by the other imprisoned bodies, and who are judged on the basis of their sensual pleasures. Transvestites in the correctional system appear as bodies that are already condemned and subject to the penalties of law. However, they find new ways to exist in a different context, which is ruled by the correctional institution, and provides different ways of feeling, thinking, wanting, acting and living. In this paper we present, in a critical way, discussions proposed under a Queer perspective, as described in various sources in the literature, providing opportunities for new questionings and debates about a differenceoriented vision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

Brazil has a low participation of women in elective positions, little more than a tenth. This is a critical condition for a representative democracy. Among the structural determinants of this phenomenon is electoral financing. This paper investigates the participation of women in the financing networks of the 2014 elections in Brazil. The results show that the relations between the political agents produce an asymmetric and selective destination of those financial resources, constituting a structural dynamics of exclusion and marginalization of the women in the arenas of the power in Brazil. Based on data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), we organized a relational database and used the methodology of social network analysis and multivariate statistical treatments to explore the 220,325 relationships recorded among 185,255 funders, party agents and candidates in the 2014 elections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The overall aim of this paper is to present some reflections on the invisibility of rural women's work in the cocoa value chain, based on bibliographical and documentary research, considering the information published from 2000 to 2015 on the impacts of environmental certification in gender equity relations in cacao farms, in the State of Bahia Brazil. It was concluded that the adoption of business strategies and environmental certifications, although they constitute development strategies targeted to the socioenvironmental development of the actors in the value chain, specially small farmers, tend not to promote equity shares and women's empowerment inside the cocoa value chain in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses mobility in metropolitan context, understood as the relationship between space, travel time, distance and accessibility. We analyze this phenomenon in the urban space. More specifically, we analyze mobility through the experience in public transportation of working class women in three cities: Recife, Managua and Guadalajara, in order to generate small portraits of gender mobility in different urban realities of Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unlike in other times, the immigrant today continues to maintain ties and close and continuous relationships with their country of origin, exerting an important psychosocial and cultural role in both countries. This paper examines, in particular, resonances of transnationalism in subjectivity, taking as object of analysis an Angolan song that portrays feelings of estrangement of a woman, because of the attitudes and behaviors of her husband, who had newly returned from Brazil. In the lyrics, the woman complains that her husband returned quite brazilianized, expressing in the relationship with her habits that she considers weird, inappropriate and offensive, according to local customs and morality. It is possible, according to this song, to see how the theme of emigration towards Brazil is present in the minds of Angolans and how they feel affected by the transubjectivity of their countrymen who return to home and instill foreign and transgressive elements in the innermost intimacy of their culture, here represented by the affective and sexual life of a couple. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present the results achieved through the implementation of an interdisciplinary project on the Supervised Internship discipline of Geography Course of the School of Integrated Sciences of the Pontal / Federal University of Uberlândia (FACIP / UFU), in the municipality Ituiutaba, MG. The realization of this project is justified from two central issues: first to work the importance of women in the contemporary context, and beyond work crosscutting issues in an interdisciplinary way. The activity was to enable the critical and interdisciplinary understanding of women in the contemporary world, through areas of science such as: Arts, Natural Sciences and Geography, and are based on crosscutting issues of Sexual Orientation and Cultural Plurality. The performance of these activities took place directly in a class of the 8th year of Elementary School Teaching of Basic Network, the Educational Center of Santa Vittoria (CESV). From a methodological point of view it was held readings and discussions. In addition, it performed a photographic survey on the Internet and development of teaching materials. It is considered that the realization of this activity allowed the students gave start to the understanding of women's issues critically and reflectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present the results achieved through the implementation of an interdisciplinary project on the Supervised Internship discipline of Geography Course of the School of Integrated Sciences of the Pontal / Federal University of Uberlândia (FACIP / UFU), in the municipality Ituiutaba, MG. The realization of this project is justified from two central issues: first to work the importance of women in the contemporary context, and beyond work crosscutting issues in an interdisciplinary way. The activity was to enable the critical and interdisciplinary understanding of women in the contemporary world, through areas of science such as: Arts, Natural Sciences and Geography, and are based on crosscutting issues of Sexual Orientation and Cultural Plurality. The performance of these activities took place directly in a class of the 8th year of Elementary School Teaching of Basic Network, the Educational Center of Santa Vittoria (CESV). From a methodological point of view it was held readings and discussions. In addition, it performed a photographic survey on the Internet and development of teaching materials. It is considered that the realization of this activity allowed the students gave start to the understanding of women's issues critically and reflectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore procedures that can help the researchers on social sciences and humanities to examine aspects of the documentation of their researches by means of computational tools. The use of informational tools for qualitative research has some advantages. Initially, they allow the perception of meaning tendencies in large amounts of documents; moreover, they reduce the need for manual interventions by the researchers, increasing their productivity and their ability to make changes of direction whenever the dynamics of the search demands it. The procedures discussed in this article allow the researchers to determine their qualitative choices based on the centrality of the meanings expressed by their sources, significantly increasing the capacity of interpretation of the social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the dynamics that exist in travesti prostitution territories in the neighborhood of Reduto, in the city of Belém (PA). The main argument of this study is that space affects the positions of the subject, composes their balance of power and causes a constant (re)configuration of territories. The analysis is carried out through the concepts of territory, territoriality and urban aesthetics, that legitimize the practices and experiences of travestis. The method used here is the qualitative, descriptive and analytical research. The article concludes that the prostitution of travestis goes beyond the mere act of having sex with clients, it encompasses an appropriation of territories and their proper maintenance, as well as a (re)planning of territorialities, based on hierarchies created by the group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Space is not just a backdrop, a framework on which human actions take place. It is also a producer of meanings and a reproducer of social mechanisms and dynamics. However, considering the role of space as a vector and reproducer of social norms related to gender and sexuality is not something obvious. Public space is designed, generated and modeled on the basis of a rigid dualistic conception: men and women, legal-illegal, gayheterossexual. Thus, the gendered nature of social space is hidden by the naturalization of the division between public space and private space, reflecting the expected division of society between public and private sphere. This paper offers some thoughts on the relations between space, gender and sexuality in geography. From a review of Anglophone literature on the influence of queer theories on the production of geographical thought, I will treat on their French derivations, then make use of the concept of performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geographies of sexualities and gender identities have yet to fully grapple with Anglo-American privilege in terms of the production of knowledge in this area and it is increasingly faced with these questions. I examine how privilege has been discussed through engagements with hetero-/ homo-normativities before exploring the contestations of the Global North and the increasing calls for queer thinking to be aware of its contextual specificities. A critical interrogation of Anglo-American power geometries that create geographies of sexualities and gender is undertaken without reductively reproducing marginalisation/privilege binaries. It does this through a personal discussion of the author's positions of power as a white, lesbian academic working in England. Heeding the warnings not to reiterate simplistic hierarchies of Global North/Global South, the paper also examines the complex flows of power-geometries, particularly that not all Anglophone scholars enjoy institutional and other privilege all the time. I conclude by contending that this requires systematic change and collective engagement with the geometries of power that define academic knowledge in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most important area of gay tolerance in Mexico is Zona Rosa, in Mexico City. Although since the seventies some gay bars appeared in the Zona Rosa, in the last years of last century, it began to flourish the pink market, and to bring together sexual dissidences from different points of the city. In the Zona Rosa coexist several socio-economic realities and identities, which are projected in the different spacialities of queer consumption. This paper analyzes the spacialities of sexual consumption of the dissidences present in Zona Rosa and their contribution to configure a queer territory. In addition, this article discusses the emerging field of the geography of sexual dissidence or queer geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Notwithstanding the remarkable contributions by Geography to the field of sexual minorities, there still exists a shrouding scientific marginality. Gay studies in Spain are also scarce and mainly framed by gender studies and centered on the concept of gay visibility, space production and tourist leisure. The term cruising is used to name gay men's anonymous sexual encounters in open/closed, public spaces near conurbations and presided over by a general lack of personal information exchange. This paper aims to examine cruising in three public, open spaces in Tenerife Island, thus intending to reduce the evident scientific marginality surrounding this practice by shedding some light on where they are, who visit them and why they drop by there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper approaches some environmental justice movements from the perspective of political ecology. It presents the cases of territorial and natural resources defense in Bhopal, India (1984), Chijoy, Guatemala (1985), and Laguna de Cuyutlán, Mexico (2010). My research concentrates on women's participation in these cases. I demonstrate that women are the most affected by environmental devastation due to the direct relation of their activities with natural resources. From this vantage point, I expose the state of pollution of Zula River at its crossing through the community of Ocotlan Jalisco, in Mexico. Following the ecofeminist school of thought, I present a recommendation to encourage the community participation in the sanitation of the river. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a central element of daily life, the urban public space can work as a field of identification and emotional relationship. Using a qualitative methodology, this paper aims to investigate how women and men give a meaningful value and develop an affective attachment to it through their daily practices. The analysis is framed within a specific social, cultural, political and economic context, such as a lowincome neighborhood in the city of Seville (Spain). The claim for a public space, the Parque Estoril, and its design by the community, meant a struggle to improve the living conditions of the residents. It has become a vibrant place for social life and also a space of belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]