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This paper aims to understand how violent deaths suffered by common people and their media coverage are approached in the field of Communication, focusing on the sense-making processes about violence and its structural nature. In order to do so, we analysed papers about the media coverage around murders, published in 26 journals in the field of Communication, classified as A2 and B1 in the Brazilian "Qualis Capes" ranking. Based on the ways of identifying the victims and the circumstances of their deaths, in interaction with the ways of naming such violence, presented in the papers' empirical and analytical dimensions, we designed an overview of the silences and absences in the epistemic constructions about violence in media and academia in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents part of the results of a doctoral research dedicated to analyze the cycle of the educational policy on gender and sexual diversity in Brazil. Based on Stephen Ball's propositions, which applies Foucault's notions of power and discourse on educational policies, the analysis aimes, beyond the metrics, to understand the political-discursive dynamics that marked both the production of this policy as the systematic reaction that has been organized against it. This text analyzes the background of this policy, its main initiatives, the agents involved in its construction and the pedagogical discourse they produced. It also identifies its main opponents, their tactics and discursive strategies, seeking to understand how they are articulated with the reactionary movements that have dominated Brazil in recent years. Finally, the paper hilights evidences that the debate on gender and sexual diversity in schools survives even in times of conservatism, censorship and ideological terrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to study the reception of the Metatheory of Fraternal Law by female sorority in Brazil from the series "Coisa Mais Linda", a Brazilian production of Netflix. The Metatheory of Fraternal Law is based on the visualization of new perspectives for cosmopolitan society from the transdisciplinary analysis of society and its moving phenomena. Allied to sorority, which intrinsic role is in bringing women into an ethical circle of empathy, it is faced, in the struggle for gender equity, a promise of recognition of the other and the social responsibility that it has. In this sense, it is questioned: considering the struggle for the realization of women's rights from what the series "Coisa Mais Linda" illustrates, the object of analysis of this research, what are the contributions of the Metatheory of Fraternal Law to the women's sorority of women in Brazil? To carry out the research, it is adopted the hypothetical-deductive method of approach and bibliographic method of procedure. It concludes, from the study, the contributions of the Metatheory of Fraternal Law in its own inclusive and transdisciplinary character, in the sense of being a sensitive right that reaches the closed confines of citizenship, designed for a new form of cosmopolitanism and sharing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aimed to analyze the refuge of women in Brazil and compare the information with international in order to verify if the gender issue still has relevance in the requests. Therefore, at first, a historical construction was made around human rights and personality rights. Then, the analysis of the (in) equality of gender was carried out, verifying if there was, or still is, the search for the emancipation of women in the international community. After that, the data on women's refuge in Brazil were compared with the world situation. Although the cut referring to a country has been made, it is concluded that even in the refuge there are reflections of the absence of gender equality. Therefore, in this article, the deductive method was used through a qualitative analysis, based on bibliographical and documentary research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates wage discrimination against workers with disabilities, as well as its interactions with other social markers of inequality, gender and race/color, using data from the 2010 Demographic Census (IBGE). Four types of disability are investigated: visual, hearing, motor, and mental. A multivariate regression model controlling for occupational fixed effects was used. The results indicate that there is wage discrimination for the four types of disability analyzed. It is observed that the greatest discrimination occurs for workers with severe visual impairment, followed by physical disabilities and, lastly, mental and hearing disabilities. However, such discrimination is of small magnitude when compared to other social markers of inequality, such as gender and race/color. The effect of gender, for example, is six times greater than that of visual impairment while non-white people suffer almost four times more discrimination. When considering the accumulation of the social markers of inequality, disability, gender, and race/color, it is confirmed that black women with and without disabilities are those who suffer the most from wage discrimination in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses how assumptions about the nature of childhood have been triggered in the confrontations about the legitimacy of gender and sexuality themes in education in contemporary Brazil. We analyse two practical-discursive pitfalls that have been consolidated in these confrontations. The first, forged by anti-gender discussion and education activists, consists in the narrative construction of vulnerable childhood to be protected, and triggers moral panic at the prospect of discussions about gender and sexuality in schools. The second, more subtle trap, concerns the situation of passivity attributed to students in the school context, who are considered to be the subjects of instruction by teachers, including those moments when gender and sexuality issues are addressed in the classroom. The image of a child-prisoner, passive and in danger made-up by the "gender ideologues," populates the narratives analysed in the first part of the paper. It allows us to discuss the political uses of the hyperinflation of this idea of child vulnerability. However, even in educational practices that invest in working gender and sexuality matters in school setting, we observe that children can be conceived as lacking agency, such as discussed in the paper's second part. In order to challenge these logics, we highlight the ludic dimension and playing with conceptual and methodological tools that can contribute to a non-pedagogizing approach to gender and sexuality in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on a fieldwork carried out in the lands of a former rural property in Northeastern Brazil. I consider the history of this property as told by its old inhabitants, who still live there. I intend to demonstrate that the content as well as the social dynamics of their narrations leave out the experiences and the accounts of women. Also, the categories of social sciences that I take to the fieldwork are predominantly associated with masculine experiences. In this paper I explore the marginalized narratives that fall outside the history of this place. In these, specific gender experiences emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an effort to promote dialogue between the fields of labor and gender studies through an analysis of the professional career of the cross-dressing artist Norberto Aymonino and his character Aymond. The Argentine artist, who performed on Brazilian stages between 1920 and 1955, had recognized talent, beauty, and style, and he signed contracts with Brazil's leading entertainment companies. Nevertheless, he won less recognition and was paid less than other variety artists. This article uses Aymond's experience to analyze such contrasts between the careers of professional drag queens and other performers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of an exploratory research carried out in two graduation courses at the Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros with the objective of verifying the presence and the degree of prejudice through five Likert-type scales: the F Scale, from Adorno et al. (1950), three scales built by the authors to assess prejudice related to gender, sexuality and race - using the F Scale as a model - and a fifth scale, the Homophobia Scale, presented in Venturi and Bokany (2011). This work is justified by the high incidence of violence against women, blacks and LGBT people in Brazil. The results obtained indicated a moderate presence of sexist, racist, homophobic, heteronormative tendencies and susceptibility to adherence to fascism, corroborating the results of other studies and pointing to the need for greater investments to combat prejudice, especially in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a reading of the intersectionality between race and gender in Brazil from the colonial period, having as corpus the work Xica da Silva: a cinderela negra, by the Brazilian author Ana Miranda, and the political and socio- historical eighteenth century country. The main purpose of the research is to analyze the place occupied by women in current feminist literary productions in the work in question. In the Brazilian case, it is important to verify how this place reflects the cultural formation of the country, in view of the gender / race intersectionality. In the perspective of interlocution between literature and politics, the methodological procedures of the study are based on bibliographical research and content analysis, with the contribution of the notion of intersectionality. The idea defended is that the record of the history of women propitiates other re-readings of the official history, with narratives that can be marked by the passage from a social position of subalternity to that of valuation and legitimation of the accepted social voice between the literary production circulation in the cultural field. In these terms, the literary work will serve as a proposal for a reading of the intersectionality between race and gender in the colonial historical context. The results of the study indicate that Xica da Silva was unique, considered as a case of exception of the condition of the black woman in Brazil. [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 propose the "body territorialization" concept, (corpoterritorialização, in Portuguese), based on indigenous feminine perspectives, because we believe that territorialization is a corporal process in which the feminine body and fluids infect, drive and regulate indigenous coexistence with and between territory and their constituents. Thus, we argue that the Katukina (Biá River Territory, Amazonas state, Brazil) actively build and rebuild their social and physical worlds, conceptualized often in terms of gender and corporeality, although they are influenced by different markers including spirituality, kinship, mobility, diet, among others. Based on Katukina gendered movements (daily and seasonal) and cosmopoetics, in addition to the resumption of indigenous feminine "epistemic territory", we demonstrate feminine importance and complementarity in the territorialization, timidly mentioned in academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the capacity of the media to incorporate controversies in circulation in the public sphere. For that, it is based on the analysis of a set of 607 news stories about violence against women in context of gender relations and proximity, collected in nine Brazilian media during the years of 2013 and 2014. Recognized as one of the countries with the highest rates of violence against women, in recent decades Brazil has passed laws aimed at protecting victims and aggravating the convictions of perpetrators, which were the result of intense debates promoted by feminists, researchers and others social actors involved in the guarantee of human rights. The collected news stories were published in the years immediately prior to the promulgation of the Feminicide Law, in 2015. Analyzed through a combination of methodologies, such as content analysis and narrative analysis, the collected news stories show that Brazilian news media are still little permeable to illuminating tendencies of violence against women as a result of gender relations, prevailing approaches that present them as routine and/or futile crimes. Therefore, the analysis makes it possible to perceive that the media are some steps behind the actions and debates that elevate this issue to a dimension of controversy, as those held in academic spaces, by feminist movements and other social actors in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The influence of schooling, especially Physical Education, on transsexual people in Belem PA Brazil, is analyzed. Current paper describes positive, negative or neutral contributions of Schooling and Physical Education within the social lifestyle of transgender individuals. Current qualitative research employs field research and semistructured interviews with transgender people with fundamental schooling. Data were interpreted by content analysis. Results show that basic education and Physical Education are generally characterized as segregating environments, with enormous impact on the agents. The interviewer and interlocutors state that the best way to develop curriculum items would be within mixed classes, with gender and sexuality inclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to articulate some elements that allow an understanding, albeit panoramic, the meaning of the roles that the black worker has been playing in the larger set of work history in Brazil. More than that, the development of such a proposal would allow a more accurate one target of the importance of inserting black people in the labor market in post-abolition Brazil, the central role that education holds in the possibility of allocating better positions and better jobs, besides the participation of black people in the consumption of cultural goods and a greater flexibility in the structure of social mobility. Finally this paper discusses the role of legal frameworks to fight anti-discrimination in the labor market in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a comparative study of male teachers who work in public, elementary-level education in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Aveiro, Portugal. We intended, fundamentally, to research the reasons and consequences of the professional choice of teachers who are engaged in an area typically associated with women - an association so strong that these teachers seem like a "foreign body" in the daily lives of public elementary schools. We show that the presence of male teachers in elementary education is a way of bringing gender issues to the forefront of education, and that there are other issues and other voices that echo in schools, namely, individuals who are capable of exercising this profession regardless of gender. [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]

This paper proposes an analysis based on the ethnography in sex clubs and sex bars for men in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The paper examines how the different markers that operate in such areas are being melted to produce desirable bodies and subjects. I locate these sites in the broader market for commercial sexual encounters among men in the city, exploring social conventions and practices that permeate the body, sexual practices and erotic choices. This is a starting point for inquiring the ways in which certain stereotypes of "masculinity" are provided with meaning and are embodied. I also propose a revision of the erotic choices and sexual practices, which challenges the idea of eroticism expressed by thinkers such as Georges Bataille. According to him, gender is fixed and crystallized, is linked to sexual dimorphism of sex/gender positions. The body "violated", passive and penetrated, is "feminine"- the opposite of the "masculine" ones, the "active", that penetrates. This design underlines the erotic within the heterosexual matrix, which prevents thinking beyond or outside the limits of its rules. Following post-structuralist thinking on gender and sexuality, as well as queer theory, I wonder if we could try to deconstruct the erotic in other terms, in order to interpret anthropologically the practices, discourses and talks discussed here as potentially transgressive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to provide a discussion on the topic homomaternal family and school. To this end, a qualitative research study was performed through narrative interviews which were conducted with four pedagogical supervisors from four schools located in the south of Brazil. After signing the informed consent, the interviews were recorded and transcribed, subjected to discourse analysis from the perspective of feminist studies of gender and Socio-Historical Social Psychology. The results show that despite the political and social efforts, there is still much resistance in the reflection of the subject in schools, guided by a heteronormative and patriarchal society. Therefore, an effective work on the subject is urgent in schools, so that prejudice and discrimination may decrease in Brazilian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes some documents produced by the Higher School of War, the main leadership formation center of the Brazilian dictatorial. They consisted of handbooks, reviews, books and reports published by its students, in small formation groups. It deals with the institution´s representations on gender relationships with special emphasis on models for males and females and the importance of their mobilization for the construction of a power project for an authoritarian state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the importance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the lives of rural women. The analysis holds on to data from a communication workshop that had the participation of women, held during the seventh edition of the Mercosur Solidarity Economy, held in July 2011 in the city of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. In the research performed during the workshop, it was observed that differently from the rural women from the past, the ones from today have a greater concern with their appearance, with their self-esteem and a disposition to conquer new spaces, beyond those of the house and rural property, which enable the knowledge of other realities, the exchange of experiences and give them more autonomy. With regard of ICTs, while the rural women of yesterday used only battery radios and black-and-white televisions, the contemporary ones have cell phones, notebooks, color televisions, satellite dishes and digital cameras. Access to information and participation in social movements appear as the main factors that contributed to these changes in the rural women's lives. On the other hand, problems such as the lack of infrastructure and uncertainties about the future of family farming are quoted as their main challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss to which extent the actions implemented in the Gender Pro-Equity Program-- actions developed in Caixa Econômica Federal (Caixa) after having been granted the Gender Pro-Equity Seal--have improved the relationships amongst men and women in this financial institution. A qualitative research was carried out from documental research and individual, semi-structured interviews with five interviewees: four managers from different Caixa branches in the Federal District, Brazil; two men and two women, and the woman who is Caixa's Pro-Equity Program Coordinator. The results point out that there have been some advances in the implementation of the Program concerning the regulation of the parity commission of men and women in the examining boards of selective processes. However, women are still located in the base of Caixa's organizational pyramid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents results of a qualitative research that aimed to apprehend and understand, among middle class women's perception and experience, the disagreement / distance / gap between primary vaginal labor option and a cesarean outcome. Fifteen women who had a private health insurance plan were interviewed about their experiences and perceptions related to their prenatal care and parturition process. Results showed a pervasive or explicit intervention of the obstetrician on women's choice, influencing on the cesarean outcome and suggesting that, for many women, it is still difficult to escape from the "trap" of the mercantilist, intervening and "iatrogenic" biomedical model, which is still firmly institutionalized and legitimated in our society. These results intend to collaborate with actions aimed to promote women's citizenship related to the right to make decisions on their reproductive choices, preserving and undertaking the parturition experience as unique and indefeasible right for all women, their partners and relatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to investigate the new patterns of relatedness constructed in the migratory context. The place chosen for such enterprise is the Brazilian region of Governor Valadares, known as a center of international emigration. It aims to understand how the family relations are reconstructed during the absence of the migrants, through three basic axles: 1) the project of production of the house, through the sending of remittances and the constitution of other forms of co-substantiality; 2) the care with the children who remain in Brazil and the circulation of children in transnational space; and, finally, 3) the relation between couples divided by the distance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of an investigation about the ressignification process of gender identities by imprisoned women in a female prison, in the North of Paraná State - South Brazil. The data analyses of semistructured interviews showed that is possible to identify negotiated, desired or negated identities as well as identity conflicts caused by their own realities andcultures, lower-socio-economic level, dysfunctional families, low literacy level, besides prison stigma. The analyses show that representations and identities rebuilt in the prison environment, especially those of prison and society, reinforce the construction of stigmas which may contribute to create reoccurring imprisonments. Prisons should be revaluated as a place for inclusion, social rehabilitation and re-insertion intro society through specific projects, in which writing should be included, considering it's social role in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

in the last 20 years there was an improvement in access to services and in almost all maternal health indicators in Brazil. Paradoxically, there is no evidence of improvement in maternal mortality. This paper aims to help to understand this paradox, by analyzing the typical models of care in childbirth in public (SUS) and private sectors; the proposals for change based on evidence and on women's rights; and the conflicts of interest and resistance to change. We review the gender biases in research and in programming, especially the overestimation of the benefits of technology, and the underestimation, or the denial, of adverse effects and discomforts of interventions. Beliefs based in sexual culture are often accepted as 'scientific' explanations of the body, sexuality and the birth physiology, and are reflected in the imposition of unnecessary risk and suffering, in practices that are harmful for genital integrity, and in the denial of the right to companions in delivery. This 'pessimization of birth' is instrumental to promote, comparatively, the model of routine section. Finally we describe how the use of gender as analytical category can contribute to promote rights and cultural changes, as in the case of companions in childbirth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the history of the movies, the need to set boundaries made fiction and documentaries follow parallel roads. This separation did not happen only in the production of films but also in subsequent academic studies. Today researchers and directors try to establish limits between fiction and documentaries but they consider the different aspects films can have. They can be classified, for example, as genre or discourse. This paper intends to verify the possibility of dialogue between those two categories, through the concept of genres of discourse elaborated by Mikhail Bakhtin. This concept organizes and directs the communicability and it lets us verify some aspects of the documentary to apprehend its constitution from a historical and social context that surrounds the documentary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]