Journal articles: 'Gender identity – Brazil'

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Nascimento, Elisa Larkin. "The sorcery of color, identity, race and gender in Brazil." Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing 2, no. 1 (April 2, 2003): 45–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17665/1676-4285.20034815.

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African ancestral values and demographic presence are crucial to the making of the Brazilian nation. Yet the tendency is to deny their identity in favor of a unitary concept of nationality and cultural homogeneity under the aegis of patriarchy and Western values.In the globalized world, feminists and formerly colonized peoples have defined identity as a political right; this is the source of the theory of multiculturalism. The critique of Western universalism and patriarchy leads us to question the terms in which this theory has been articulated and points to the need to interrogate whiteness.This critique, developed in the practice and thought of feminist and anti-racist social movements, including Afro-Brazilian movements in the period 1930-1968, contributes in largely unrecognized ways to the construction of post-modern thought.The concept of gender implies moving the focus of attention from women to the relations between men and women. A similar shift can be made in the study of race relations and of feminist thought. Thus, it is suggested that the traditional focus on “Blacks” or on “the Black problem” in Brazil is insufficient. In order to deal effectively with the issue of race, one must interrogate the silent, invisible and unarticulated hegemony of white identity as ethnicity. In this process, reason is found to critically analyze feminist thought from the perspective of non-Western cultures. The line of scientific research and thought initiated and inspired by Cheikh Anta Diop and the analysis of the social and linguistic structures of the Yoruba, an African people who contributed greatly to the formation of Brazilian culture, reveal common grounds and areas of coherence between feminist theory and Afrocentric or perspectivist anti-racist thought.The text explores the legacy and current presence of racism in Brazil in their relation to patriarchy. The Sorcery of Color is proposed as a metaphor for the Brazilian standard of race relations, which transforms a perverse system of racial domination into a pretense of anti-racist ideals and creates the category of Virtual Whiteness as its fulcrum of identity. These factors are traced in the literature of psychology and new tendencies like ethnopsychiatry and the study of whiteness are identified. Also, the emergence of new theoretical and therapeutic approaches in the clinical practice and theoretical production of a new generation of Brazilian African descendant psychologists is observed and characterized as the Afro-Brazilian Listeners Based on documentary research, Black movements in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1914-1960) are examined in a critical analysis that emphasizes the aspects of identity and education. Frequently, distortion and omission of data occur in studies of these movements, which present a continuum and coherence in thought and practice over the twentieth century, and also contribute to the construction of post-modern thought. In education, the conclusion is that attending to the widely demonstrated need to overcome racial discrimination will depend on a new approach to gender and to African identity.

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Ostermann, Ana Cristina, and Caroline Comunello da Costa. "Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 22, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 203–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.22.2.02ost.

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The current study looks at the construction of professional identity and its relations with gender, by analyzing the discursive practices of a unique set of contrasting groups, i.e. three parallel institutions created to address violence against women in Brazil: An all female police station and two crisis intervention centers – one run by feminists professionals and the other run by lay women from a working class community. In particular, the study investigates how the professionals in each setting respond to self and other assessments made by the female victims of violence.

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Rebhun, L. A. "SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GAY MALE IDENTITY IN BRAZIL." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 7, no. 4 (January 1, 2001): 637–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-637.

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Marsh, Leslie L. "Women, Gender and Romantic Comedy in Brazil." Feminist Media Histories 3, no. 2 (2017): 98–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.2.98.

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This essay examines the romantic comedies S.O.S. mulheres ao mar (2014) and Meu passado me condena (2013), which repeat several tropes of the chanchada—a film comedy genre with its beginnings in early twentieth-century Brazil. Both offer a negotiation of changing class status in Brazil during a period of increasing international attention and economic growth (2002 to 2014). Although these films promote new notions of Brazilian cultural identity, they also sustain established hierarchies (of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality) in favor of promoting neoliberal values and ways of being. In particular they promote consumerism, self-improvement, and the cultivation of personal happiness. Unlike Brazilian popular comedy of the mid-twentieth century, these films do not offer self-deprecating critiques of modernity or the failings of capitalism. Rather, S.O.S. mulheres ao mar and Meu passado me condena celebrate and promote the idea of a new emergent Brazil, making gender and sexuality frameworks for thinking about contemporary Brazilian cultural identity.

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Ikawa, Daniela. "The construction of identity and rights: race and gender in Brazil." International Journal of Law in Context 10, no. 4 (December 2014): 494–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s174455231400024x.

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AbstractThe recognition of individual identity as multilayered and circumstance based leads to a shift from a theory of general rights to a theory of specific rights connected to structural social change. General rights, such as the right to health and the right to work, must be interpreted according to the circumstance of differently situated women, so that rights are specific enough to ensure that they are actually enforced for different groups, including groups that, due to discrimination, are made invisible to the law. In this sense, the different circumstances that help develop the identity of women, Black women or poor Black women in Brazil will be studied to give specific content to general rights recognised by Brazilian law and by International human rights law.

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Maclean, Iain S. "Slavery & Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888." Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9, no. 1 (June 2004): 225–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlat.2004.9.1.225.2.

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Maclean, Iain S. "Slavery & Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888." Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9, no. 1 (May 7, 2008): 225–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlca.2004.9.1.225.2.

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Naro, Nancy Priscilla. "Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808–1888." Hispanic American Historical Review 85, no. 2 (May 1, 2005): 349–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-85-2-349.

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Cardoso da Silva, Dhiordan, Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari, Claudia Correa De Garcia, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Márcia Brambila, Karine Schwarz, Cesar Bridi Filho, Maiko Abel Schneider, Bianca Soll, and Maria Inês Rodrigues Lobato. "Gender Identity Program: The Scope of Health Treatment of Transsexuals in Brazil." Journal of Sexual Medicine 14, no. 5 (May 2017): e342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.04.616.

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Sánchez-Fuentes, María del Mar, Ludgleydson Fernandes de Araújo, Sandra Milena Parra-Barrera, Érika Rhayane Sousa Fontes, José Victor de Oliveira Santos, and Nieves Moyano. "Transphobia and gender identity: social representations of trans women from Brazil and Colombia." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 26, no. 11 (November 2021): 5793–804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320212611.33642020.

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Abstract The present research aimed to identify and discuss the social representations of trans women related to gender identity and transphobia in Brazil and Colombia. In this study participated 43 Trans women, 22 from Brazil, aged between 18 and 55 years (M=29.09, SD=8.53) and 21 from Colombia, aged between 21 and 41 years (M=28.19, SD=7.63). This study adopted a qualitative approach in which semi-structured interviews were used. The data were analyzed by the Iramuteq software, which identified the social representations in classes. The results showed what the participants understood about transphobia and how they regarded their experiences with this gender identity. The participants presented negative social representations, aiming at their personal experiences related to their social context. Themes related to violence, discrimination, prejudice, denial of rights and family support emerged from both the Brazilian and Colombian sample. Implications for Tran´s quality of life are discussed.

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Borodina, M. A., G. N. Suvorov, and K. V. Mashkova. "THE MAIN APPROACHES TO THE LEGAL REGULATION OF GENDER VERIFICATION IN SPORT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS." Issues of Law 20, no. 3 (2020): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14529/pro-prava200304.

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Genetically determined differences in height, musculature and a number of other physiological parameters lead to a significant advantage for men over female in kind of sports where the key indicators depend on strength, speed and endurance. All above suggest the need to maintain the practice of holding separate competitions for different genders. However, the practical solution to this issue seems not that obvious, taking into consideration persons with an indeterminate gender identity and transgender person. Analysis of the current legislation of a significant number of States has allowed to identify some approaches:1) ignoring not only the problem of participation in sports activities of persons with an indeterminate gender identity and transgender person, but also the issue of their special legal status in general (Greece, Israel, Ireland, Cyprus, Latvia, etc.); 2) recognizing gender diversity and solving the problems of persons with an indeterminate gender identity and transgender personfrom the position of general provisions of non-discrimination legislation without defining the specifics of sports activities (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary); 3) recognition of gender diversity but with strive to limit the opportunities for transgender personfor participation in sports in order to ensure fair competition (Brazil); 4) recognition of gender diversity with consequent regulation of sports participation of persons with an indeterminate gender identity and transgender person(Australia, great Britain, Canada, USA). Demonstrating the last example two patterns can be revealed: a possibility of developing different, sometimes diametrically opposite approaches to solving this problem due to the Federal structure of States, and the active involvement of national sports federations in this process

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Selka, Stephen. "The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race and Gender in Brazil by Elisa Larkin Nascimento." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 13, no. 1 (April 2008): 232–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-7180.2008.00010_5.x.

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Dawson, Allan Charles. "Food and spirits: religion, gender, and identity in the ‘African’ cuisine of Northeast Brazil." African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 5, no. 2 (July 2012): 243–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2012.695224.

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Kraay, Hendrik. "Reviews of Books:Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888 Mieko Nishida." American Historical Review 109, no. 2 (April 2004): 580–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/530458.

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Borba, Rodrigo. "Ex‐centric textualities and rehearsed narratives at a gender identity clinic in Brazil: Challenging discursive colonization." Journal of Sociolinguistics 21, no. 3 (June 2017): 320–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12236.

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Medeiros, Priscila Martins, and Paulo Alberto dos Santos Vieira. "TOWARDS OTHER NARRATIVES: EDUCATION AND DERACIALIZATION OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRAZIL." Cadernos de Pesquisa 49, no. 171 (March 2019): 288–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/198053145497.

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Abstract In this paper, we discuss the historical process involved in the construction of the Brazilian national identity, based on the racialization of the black experience, an element still present in the Brazilian identity formation process. Despite the processes of dehumanization endured by black people, they can and must be portrayed in educational spaces for their resistance and fight in order to escape from the zone of non-being and ontological erasure caused by modernity. The paper is organized in three general topics: a) racism, education and the national question in Brazil; b) the processes of racialization of black subjects; and c) black resistance and black agency as a way to construct new narratives in the field of education.

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Purificação, Marcelo Máximo. "Dualidades de Gêneros no Perfil de Construção do Pedagogo(a) / Gender Dualities in the Pedagogue's Construction Profile." ID on line. Revista de psicologia 16, no. 59 (February 28, 2022): 44–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.14295/idonline.v16i59.3375.

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Resumo: Este ensaio emerge de parte das leituras e discussões realizadas na disciplina “Temas Contemporâneos em Educação”, desenvolvidas no âmbito do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em nível doutoramento, da Universidade Luterana do Brasil – ULBRA. Tem por objetivo refletir sobre as perspectivas de gênero para entender a opção de carreira docente para os anos iniciais. Para isso, chama-se para o diálogo os seguintes marcadores sociais: Educação, Políticas Educacionais, Gênero, Sexualidade, Identidade e Formação de Professores. É um texto cunhado na metodologia bibliográfica.Palavras-chave: Relações de Gênero; Políticas Educacionais; Docência. Abstract: This essay emerges from part of the readings and discussions carried out in the discipline “Contemporary Themes in Education”, developed within the scope of the Graduate Program in Education at the doctoral level, at the Lutheran University of Brazil – ULBRA. It aims to reflect on gender perspectives to understand the teaching career option for the early years. For this, the following social markers are called for dialogue: Education, Educational Policies, Gender, Sexuality, Identity and Teacher Training. It is a study coined in the bibliographic methodology.Keywords: Gender Relations; Educational Policies; teaching.

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Santos, Eduardo Faria. "Corpo livre." GIS - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia 4, no. 1 (October 24, 2019): 125–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2019.152114.

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New forms of organizing social movements are debating the intersection of different social markers or axis of oppression, as gender, sexuality, class and race, problematizing sexual and gender norms. The collective A Revolta da Lâmpada, in São Paulo, Brazil, claims to be a platform with intersectional horizon, creating a common denominator – the free body – among different identity groups without the hierarchization of agendas and delegitimization of its exclusive spaces. Through the celebration of their bodies occupying public spaces, it uses diverse artistic expressions to do activism, what is being called artivism. The study highlights how the collective goes beyond the debate on identity politics and uses the intersectional inspiration together with the body – and its emotions – as site of resistance, celebration and means of exploring artistic forms of doing activism.

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Silva, Renato Canevari Dutra da, Ana Bárbara de Brito Silva, Fernanda Cunha Alves, Kemilly Gonçalves Ferreira, Lizza Dalla Valle Nascimento, Maryanna Freitas Alves, and Carlabianca Cabral de Jesus Canevari. "Bioethical reflections on the access of transgender individuals to public health." Revista Bioética 30, no. 1 (March 2022): 195–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1983-80422022301519en.

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Abstract In Brazil, transgender individuals, those whose gender identity differs from the assigned biological sex, are marginalized by society and face difficulties in accessing the Unified Health System. This study sought to identify these difficulties by carrying out an integrative review of papers published in the SciELO, LILACS, MEDLINE, Virtual Campus for Public Health, Base de Dados de Enfermagem, and ColecionaSUS databases, in the last five years. Of the 26 articles found, only nine met the inclusion criteria. Based on their references other nine papers were included, thus totaling 18. Results point to the following difficulties encountered: hostility in care; disrespect for the social name; technical and scientific unpreparedness of professionals; difficulty of access to gender reassignment procedures; and prejudice. It is therefore of paramount importance to implement interventions to minimize segregation, and invest in further research on this topic.

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Coelho Filho, Luiz Carlos Teixeira. "Inclusivity the Brazilian Way: The Road to Same-sex Marriage in the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil." Journal of Anglican Studies 18, no. 1 (May 2020): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740355320000182.

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AbstractIn June 2018, the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil’s (IEAB) General Synod voted, by an overwhelming majority, to amend its canons by redefining marriage as a ‘lifelong union between two people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity’.2 In this essay, I intend to describe the process that led to such decision both as the result of major changes that happened in Brazilian society and as a response to IEAB’s inner process of discernment and theology-making in parallel with other Anglican provinces. Rather than merely copying theological developments and discussions produced in the English-speaking world, IEAB creatively engaged foreign and local sources (Anglican and non-Anglican), thus producing a contextually based theology that led to its embracing of same-gender couples as full members, worthy of all sacraments and rites.

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Quinaud, Ricardo T., Ana Fernandes, Carlos E. Gonçalves, and Humberto M. Carvalho. "Student-Athletes’ Motivation and Identity: Variation Among Brazilian and Portuguese University Student-Athletes." Psychological Reports 123, no. 5 (December 6, 2019): 1703–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294119892885.

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This study examined the variation of student-athletes’ identity and motivation across Portuguese and Brazilian universities, accounting for variation in gender, student-athletes’ training hours per week, sports level, student-athletes status within each university, and university type. We initially established the validity of the Baller Identity Measurement Scale questionnaire and the Student-Athletes’ Motivation toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire-based observations among 441 Brazilian and Portuguese student-athletes. Then, the validated version of the questionnaires was applied to a total sample of 765 student-athletes from Brazil (n= 568) and Portugal (n = 197). We further considered individual (hours of training and student-athlete status) and contextual characteristics (university type and country). Multilevel regression and poststratification were used to estimate each student-athlete identity and motivation as a function of his or her individual and contextual characteristics. Overall, the predictions showed that cultural (country), academic (type of university), and athletic (training hours) context likely have a substantial influence on student-athletes’ identity and motivation.

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Brito, Maria José Menezes, Lívia Cozer Montenegro, and Alves Marília. "Relational Experiences of Power and Gender for Nurse-Managers of Private Hospitals." Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 18, no. 5 (October 2010): 952–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692010000500016.

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Influenced by increased technology and globalization, Brazilian hospitals are undergoing significant changes. The managerial models focused on the male model are being slowly and gradually replaced, with an expressive participation of female nurses in management positions. Thus, we aimed to uncover some aspects of the relational experiences of power and gender of nine female nurse-managers working in four large and medium-sized private hospitals in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, through a qualitative case study. The results show that management discourses value a managerial style focused on the organizations’ humanized aspects, where authoritative styles have no space. In this scenario, the work of female nurse-managers strengthens teamwork, which improves their image and contributes to forming their identity.

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Welsh, Marcus D. "Cross-dressing and Transgressing: The Queer Body in Madame Satã." Latin American Perspectives 48, no. 2 (March 2021): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x20988717.

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In Karim Aïnouz’s debut feature film Madame Satã (2002), the protagonist yearns to be a cross-dressing performer. Based on the historical figure João Francisco dos Santos, the protagonist is black, poor, gay, and a criminal in the Brazil of the 1930s. An examination of his body as a nexus of these factors and the film’s portrayal of it in the context of queer theory, film history, and social discourses of gender, race, and class and in cinematic terms demonstrates that, while he is able to express his fluid gender identity temporarily through performance, the protagonist is unable to escape his social position as regulated by the intersectionality of his gender identity with other factors. En el primer largometraje de Karim Aïnouz, Madame Satã (2002), el protagonista anhela ser un artista travesti. Basado en la figura histórica de João Francisco dos Santos, dicho protagonista es negro, pobre, homosexual y criminal en el Brasil de la década de 1930. El artículo analiza su cuerpo como nexo entre estos factores y la manera en que es representado en la película a partir de una perspectiva teórica queer, de la historia del cine y los discursos sociales de género, raza y clase, así como de la técnica cinematográfica. Si por un lado el personaje es capaz de expresar su fluida identidad de género temporalmente a través de la interpretación, por otro es incapaz de escapar su posición social, la cual está regulada por la interseccionalidad entre su identidad de género y otros factores.

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Su, Yvonne, and Tyler Valiquette. "‘They Kill Us Trans Women’: Migration, informal labour, and sex work among trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil during COVID-19." Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 19 (September 27, 2022): 119–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.14197/atr.201222198.

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This short article contributes to the growing scholarship on the complex ways sexual orientation and gender identity impact people’s experiences of migration, informal labour, and sex work. Drawing on surveys and interviews with twelve trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil and six key informant interviews with sex workers, trans activists, and humanitarian and NGO staff, this short article asks: How has COVID-19 affected the livelihoods of trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants?

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Motta, Renata. "Feminist Solidarities and Coalitional Identity: The Popular Feminism of the Marcha das Margaridas." Latin American Perspectives 48, no. 5 (June 17, 2021): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x211017896.

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The Marcha das Margaridas is a mass mobilization in Brazil led by women’s organizations within rural unions in alliance with other social movements and nongovernmental organizations, including transnational partners such as the World March of Women. The main political subjects are rural working women, a political identity that articulates gender, class, and urban-rural inequalities. These are foundational for the popular feminism of the Marcha. An examination of the Marcha das Margaridas guided by a theoretical discussion of poststructural feminism and postcolonial feminism on the role of political identities in building coalitions reveals that it expands the agenda of popular feminism in its relationship to historical feminist agendas and intersectional feminisms and in its coalition politics with men and the left. A Marcha das Margaridas é uma mobilização de massa no Brasil liderada por organismos de mulheres dentro de sindicatos rurais em aliança com outros movimentos sociais e organizações não governamentais (ONGs), incluindo parceiros transnacionais como a Marcha Mundial das Mulheres. Os principais sujeitos políticos são as mulheres trabalhadoras rurais, uma identidade política que articula as desigualdades de gênero, classe e urbano-rurais. Estes são fundamentais para o feminismo popular da Marcha. Um estudo da Marcha das Margaridas guiado por uma discussão teórica do feminismo pós-estrutural e do feminismo pós-colonial sobre o papel das identidades políticas na construção de coalizões revela que ela expande a agenda do feminismo popular em sua relação com agendas feministas históricas e feminismos intersetoriais, como também em sua coalizão política com os homens e a esquerda.

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Beecheno, Kim. "Faith-Based Organisations as Welfare Providers in Brazil: The Conflict over Gender in Cases of Domestic Violence." Social Inclusion 7, no. 2 (June 24, 2019): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i2.1977.

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What does the growth of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in social welfare mean for women’s rights and gender equality, especially within advocacy services for women experiencing domestic violence? Through empirical research within a Catholic-based organisation providing welfare services to abused women in São Paulo, Brazil, this article argues that FBOs can negatively impact the provision of women’s rights when conservative and patriarchal views towards gender and women’s roles in society are maintained. A heavily matrifocal perspective, where women’s identity and subjectivity are mediated through their normative roles as wives, mothers and carers of the family, appears to offer little possibility of change for abused women, who are encouraged to forgive violent husbands and question their own behaviour. Mediation between couples is promoted, undermining women’s rights upheld through Brazil’s domestic violence law (Lei Maria da Penha no 11.340). Furthermore, the focus of family preservation, supported by a patriarchal state, means that violence against women (VAW) appears to be subordinated to a focus on family violence and violence against children. In this case, faith-based involvement in social welfare rejects the feminist analysis of VAW as a gender-based problem, viewing it as a personal issue rather than a collective or political issue, making women responsible for the violence in their lives.

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de Assunção, Viviane Kraieski. "Circulating Food and Relationships: the Movement of Food (and Other Things) Between Brazilians in Boston and Brazil." International Review of Social Research 2, no. 1 (February 1, 2012): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/irsr-2012-0005.

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Abstract: In 2009, I conducted fieldwork about the culinary practices of Brazilian immigrants in Greater Boston, USA. I assume that food is a good way to understand the migration process, because it is related to the construction of ethnic and national identity, as well as gender, power and class relations. In this article, I emphasize that food is used by Brazilian immigrants in Greater Boston to strengthen social relations with family members and relatives who stayed in Brazil. There is a circulation of many types of goods, such as laptops, computers and cosmetics, between the participants of social networks in the USA and Brazil. In this flow, I highlight the role of food, that maintains through its sensuality (specially smell and taste) the connection of the immigrants with their place of origin.

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MOURA, BRUNO MELO, and ANDRÉ LUIZ MARANHÃO DE SOUZA-LEÃO. "Identidade cultural no consumo de fãs brasileiros da National Football League." Cadernos EBAPE.BR 18, no. 3 (September 20, 2020): 595–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1679-395120190020.

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Abstract Brazilians watching the US National Football League (NFL) interact on social media during the broadcast of league games. Since fan consumption practices can establish identities from the intensity of involvement with media products, this research aims to analyze how Brazilian NFL fans constitute cultural identities in their interactions on social media during the broadcast of league games. We use netnography, a method commonly used in studies that seek to understand cultural phenomena that occur through online interactions. The research corpus was formed by messages posted by fans on Twitter hashtags created by the ESPN channels of Brazil, during the games broadcasted in the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 seasons. The results indicate three identity categories: nationalism, as a way of projecting an idealized image of a nation; localism, as a demarcation of tensions of the differences existing in the country; and social minorities related to gender and sexual orientation, revealing tensions and conformities in the social construction of these positions. By revealing identities strongly related to the notion of place and different representations of the hetero-masculine, these findings are evidenced as a particular version of the central values of the sport itself in its country of origin.

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Reyes-Housholder, Catherine. "Women Mobilizing Women: Candidates’ Strategies for Winning the Presidency." Journal of Politics in Latin America 10, no. 1 (April 2018): 69–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1866802x1801000103.

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Latin America has elected more female presidents than any other region in the world, yet dominant theories on campaigning tend to ignore gender. In addressing this lacuna, this article argues that the widespread belief that women are better at mobilizing women means that female candidates tend to invest more significant effort into cultivating a core constituency of women on the basis of gender identity. In contrast, male candidates tend to delegate women-mobilization tasks to female surrogates. An analysis of approximately 1,000 newspaper articles reveals that the “most different” female candidates in Chile and Brazil consistently met with female voters early in their campaigns, evoked gender identities and promised pro-women change. The “most different” male candidates enlisted their wives and female politicians to target women, defend their pro-women promises, and deflect accusations of sexism. The theory illuminates multiple ways in which viable female candidates’ entry into the political arena can improve women's representation.

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Biello, Katie B., Beatriz Grinsztejn, Nilo Martinez Fernandes, Alberto Edeza, Luciana Kamel, Peter Salhaney, Valdiléa Veloso, and Matthew J. Mimiaga. "Development of a Social Network–Based Intervention to Overcome Multilevel Barriers to ART Adherence Among Adolescents in Brazil." AIDS Education and Prevention 31, no. 2 (April 2019): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2019.31.2.111.

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Brazil's comprehensive HIV treatment program does not specifically address ART adherence challenges for adolescents—a group accounting for the largest number of incident HIV infections in Brazil. We conducted three focus groups with 24 adolescents (age 15–24) living with HIV in Rio de Janeiro, separately for cisgender men who have sex with men, heterosexual-identified cisgender men and women, and transgender women of any sexual orientation, and key informant interviews (n = 7) with infectious disease specialists and HIV/AIDS service organization staff. Content analysis identified socioecological barriers and facilitators to adherence, including individual (e.g., low knowledge, side effects, and substance use), interpersonal (e.g., stigma from partners and health care providers) and structural (e.g., transportation and medication access) barriers. Overlapping and unique barriers emerged by sexual/gender identity. A community-informed, theory-driven ART adherence intervention for adolescents that is organized around identity and leverages social networks has the potential to improve HIV treatment and health outcomes for Brazilian adolescents.

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Costa, Leandro Beiragrande da, Yuri Bindá Leite, André Luiz Machado das Neves, and Eduardo Barbosa de Menezes Guimarães. "Violent deaths and the path to judicialization of LGBTphobia in Brazil." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 8, no. 8 (August 1, 2020): 693–711. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss8.2577.

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This exploratory research was based on bibliographic and documentary sources and aimed to address the performance of the three branches regarding the criminalization of LGBTphobia. These people are stigmatized because of their sexual orientation and gender identity, since they differ from the heteronormativity still prevailing in society, which has led them to suffer more and more different types of violence, including physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological aggressions, to which they are constantly subjected. The lack of official data, beforehand, shows the real neglect of the public authority towards the rights and guarantees of this minority, in addition to the lack of effective public policies and non-investigation and non-judgment of crimes commonly poignant, which reveal true state violence. It was found that few actions by the executive branch go beyond the planning stage and that the endless discussions by the legislative can be described as true inertia, resulting in numerous quarrels in the judiciary branch, in which the LGBT community has achieved progress in denouncing human rights violations and in the relentless search for overcoming discrimination.

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Kirakosyan, Lyusyena. "Challenging Gender and Disability Stereotypes: Narrative Identities of Brazilian Female Paralympians." Disabilities 1, no. 4 (November 4, 2021): 420–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/disabilities1040029.

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The purpose of this narrative inquiry is two-fold: first, to illuminate the views and experiences of Brazilian female Paralympians that helped shape their narrative identities, and second, to develop a better understanding of the reasons behind the gender inequality in Paralympic sports. According to the International Paralympic Committee, 1671 female athletes competed in the Rio 2016 Paralympics, representing almost 40 percent of the participating Paralympians. In Rio, Brazil had the largest Paralympic delegation in its history, with 287 Paralympians, of which only 102 were women (about 35 percent). The reasons why there is a significant discrepancy between male and female Paralympic participation are highly complex and little researched, particularly in Latin American contexts. In examining the complexities of these women’s narrative identities and their relationship with social norms, I draw on the insights from disability feminism, identity theory, and disability sport to analyze and interpret the Paralympic sportswomen’s narrative accounts. Individual interviews with 20 Brazilian female Paralympians from nine different sports revealed the intricate relationships each has with social norms regarding gender, disability, sport, and the body.

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MOURA, BRUNO MELO, and ANDRÉ LUIZ MARANHÃO DE SOUZA-LEÃO. "Cultural identity in the consumption of the National Football League by Brazilian fans." Cadernos EBAPE.BR 18, no. 3 (September 20, 2020): 595–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1679-395120190020x.

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Abstract Brazilians watching the US National Football League (NFL) interact on social media during the broadcast of league games. Since fan consumption practices can establish identities from the intensity of involvement with media products, this research aims to analyze how Brazilian NFL fans constitute cultural identities in their interactions on social media during the broadcast of league games. We use netnography, a method commonly used in studies that seek to understand cultural phenomena that occur through online interactions. The research corpus was formed by messages posted by fans on Twitter hashtags created by the ESPN channels of Brazil, during the games broadcasted in the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 seasons. The results indicate three identity categories: nationalism, as a way of projecting an idealized image of a nation; localism, as a demarcation of tensions of the differences existing in the country; and social minorities related to gender and sexual orientation, revealing tensions and conformities in the social construction of these positions. By revealing identities strongly related to the notion of place and different representations of the hetero-masculine, these findings are evidenced as a particular version of the central values of the sport itself in its country of origin.

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Viladrich, Anahí. "The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007, 324 pp. By Elisa Larkin Nascimento." Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies 2, no. 3 (April 2007): 138–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18085/llas.2.3.3t372m821u5671mn.

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Borba, Rodrigo. "Identidade e intertextualidade: a construção do gênero e da sexualidade na prevenção de DST/AIDS entre travestis que se prostituem." Cadernos de Linguagem e Sociedade 9, no. 1 (November 17, 2010): 98–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/les.v9i1.9263.

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This paper discusses the construction of gender and sexual identities as intertextual phenomena that emerge from local contexts of language use. More specifically, guided by a non-representational/non-essencialist perspective on language use and identity, this article investigates the discursive construction of identities in interactions drawn from safer-sex outreach work among tranvestis who work as sex professionals in an urban area in Southern Brazil. During the safer-sex outreach work interactions, Sandra and Márcia, women in gender and sex, produce non-traditional identities and bring to light interactional processes of adequation of their subject positions to the travestis’ and to the context of the interactions. Based on Wittgenstein’s (2005) and Bakhtin’s (2003; 2004) theories, I argue that the discursive production of identities is only made possible because of the intertextual aspect of social identities. Sandra and Márcia make use of intertexts that construct them as participants of the travestis’ social universe. The safer-sex outreach workers position themselves through their utterances in identity categories such as travesti, travesti’s client, and prostitute and, thus, seem to engage in sequential processes of adequation of their subject positions to their transgendered interlocutors.

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Melo, Geovana Ferreira, and Vanessa T. Bueno Campos. "UNIVERSITY PEDAGOGY: FOR AN INSTITUTIONAL TEACHING DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN HIGHER EDUCATION." Cadernos de Pesquisa 49, no. 173 (September 2019): 44–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/198053145897.

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Abstract This study aims to highlight the need for developing institutional projects on University Pedagogy which contribute to the professional development of higher education teachers at work. We questioned them the possible contributions of training activities focused on teaching development and professional identity. This quantitative, qualitative research was conducted in a federal university located in the region of Triângulo Mineiro, in Brazil, from 2013 to 2016. We collected data by means of questionnaires and interviews with university professors. We concluded that fragmented, sporadic training processes contribute little to professional development. Thus, in view of the complex work in higher education, institutional efforts are needed to consolidate a University Pedagogy as a permanent field for teacher training and development.

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Canavese, Daniel, Maurício Polidoro, Marcos Claudio Signorelli, Rodrigo Otávio Moretti-Pires, Richard Parker, and Veriano Terto Jr. "A call for the urgent and definitive inclusion of gender identity and sexual orientation data in the Brazilian health information systems: what can we learn from the monkeypox outbreak?" Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 27, no. 11 (November 2022): 4191–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320222711.12902022en.

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Abstract In this document, we present to the scientific community a proposal on how to deal with the challenge imposed on surveillance and health actions in Brazil regarding monkeypox, including points and directions that have the potential to support learning and enable advances in the current scenario.

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Baptista Silva, Angélica, Mônica Malta, Cosme Marcelo Furtado Passos da Silva, Clarice Cavalcante Kalume, Ianê Germano Andrade Filha, Sara LeGrand, and Kathryn Whetten. "The Dandarah App: An mHealth Platform to Tackle Violence and Discrimination of Sexual and Gender Minority Persons Living in Brazil." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 1 (December 24, 2022): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010280.

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Discrimination and violence are widely experienced by sexual and gender minority (SGM) persons worldwide. More than one SGM person is murdered every day in Brazil because of their sexuality or gender identity, which is the highest reported homicide rate in the world. Alt-hough discrimination and violence against SGM persons in Brazil are considered to be hate crimes, reporting is still suboptimal due to fear of police SGM phobia and victim blaming. Accessible and easily disseminated interventions are urgently needed. Herein, we describe the develop-ment of an mHealth solution to help address violence against SGM persons, namely the Rainbow Resistance: Dandarah App, with a synthesis of key results and feedback from the SGM community after 24 months of using the app. Twenty-two focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with SGM persons living in six Brazilian states: Bahia, Federal District, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Sergipe, and Pará. A total of 300 SGM persons participated in the FGDs. A thematic analysis was performed to interpret the qualitative data. Content themes related to aesthetics, us-ability, barriers to resources, and likes/dislikes about the intervention arose from the FGDs. Participants found the intervention to be user-friendly, endorsed more likes than dislikes, and suggested a few changes to the app. The findings suggest that the intervention is usable and fit for future ef-fectiveness testing, and that it could fill an important gap in the well-being of SGM persons living in a country with high levels of discrimination and violence towards this community, i.e., Brazil.

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Monteiro Petry Jardim, Lísia Maya, Taís Marques Cerentini, Maria Inês Rodrigues Lobato, Ângelo Brandelli Costa, Dhiordan Cardoso da Silva, Karine Schwarz, Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari, et al. "Sexual Function and Quality of Life in Brazilian Transgender Women Following Gender-Affirming Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 23 (November 27, 2022): 15773. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315773.

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This cross-sectional and descriptive study aimed to evaluate the sexual function, urinary function, and quality of life of 26 Brazilian trans women who have undergone gender-affirming surgery (GAS) using the gold standard technique (penile inversion vaginoplasty) in the Gender Identity Transdisciplinary Program at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil, between March 2016 and July 2017. The Female Sexual Function Index, the SF-36 Health Survey, and the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Short Form were used. Regarding their surgical results, 84.6% of the women said they were satisfied, 73.1% were sexually functional, and 15.4% reported urinary incontinence not associated with surgery. Participants also reported a good quality of life, despite low scores of pain and physical vitality. Transgender women in our sample reported a good quality of life and sexual function after GAS. Further studies are required to improve the psychosexual wellbeing of this specific population.

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Middlemiss Lé Mon, Martha. "Exhausted Women, Exhausted Welfare and the Role of Religion." Social Inclusion 7, no. 2 (June 24, 2019): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i2.2273.

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This themed collection is bound together by some foundational observations which have been well documented in earlier research. European post-war welfare systems face challenges related to aging populations, globalization, migration, changing patterns of family and gender roles. The post-war model of welfare dependent on the idea of stable heterosexual families, with male breadwinners and women carers is giving way to more individualized and mobile systems. The four articles and commentary in this issue provide glimpses of the issues within this field that unite contexts as diverse as the Nordic countries, Brazil and the United States. They explore the intersection of welfare, religion and gender charting gendered problems in welfare provision in relation to religious organisation, affiliation and identity. This issue provides examples of how the exhaustion of women and welfare systems is interconnected and the understanding of this crucial to any attempts to reform welfare systems to enhance social inclusion or reduce exclusion.

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Silva, Marta Regina Paulo da. "Gender relations, comic books and children's cultures: Between stereotypes and reinventions." Policy Futures in Education 16, no. 5 (August 16, 2017): 524–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210317724642.

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The article discusses the production of children's cultures based on the experiences of 3–5-year-old children with the language of comic books, focusing on gender relations. It is part of a doctoral research project conducted at FE / UNICAMP and investigates a case study in a municipal pre-school in the Greater ABC region in São Paulo, Brazil. It assumes that comic books viewed as media production interfere with children's ways of life, often reinforcing stereotypes found in sex differences. Combining philosophy, sociology and childhood education, it discusses how small children interact with comic books and what they reproduce, invent or reinvent when inspired by such materials. It emphasizes that comic books are part of children's material cultures and unveil symbolic aspects of children's cultures, which they share with each other and with adults in such a way that they observe patterns and identity values being negotiated in the sense that not only do they reproduce stereotypes of heteronormative culture, but also cross the boundaries of gender. In sum, the article sheds light on the challenge of bringing children to the debate about gender relations from the perspective of pedagogical proposals which might overcome sexist practices present in educational institutions.

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Cordeiro, Ana Luisa Alves, Maria José De Jesus Alves Cordeiro, and Márcia Maria de Medeiros. "The Challenges of Education in Gender Issues and Sexuality in Times of Crisis." Fragmentos de Cultura 28, no. 1 (June 8, 2018): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18224/frag.v28i1.6183.

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Abstract: the impeachment process of the elected President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016/Interrupted) in Brazil, besides its political and economic dimension, national and international, is characterized by macho, racist and heteronormative delineations, directly affecting identity groups, among them those of women, peasants, ethnic-racial and LGBTs. The aim of this article is to analyze some (ultra)conservative trends in educational policies in the treatment of gender and sexuality issues without disregarding other intersectionalities. The analysis has as theoretical reference referential that interface education, gender and ethnic-racial relations. It is a qualitative approach, constituting two axes: bibliographical and documentary. The expressive advance, especially in the political sphere, of the aforementioned tendencies, works in the dismantling of rights related to gender issues in the sphere of education, articulating the ethnic-racial and sexual orientation issues, thus characterizing the setbacks that operate intersectionally.Os Desafios da Educação nas Questões de Gênero e Sexualidade em Tempos de CriseResumo: o processo de impeachment da presidenta eleita Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016/Interrompido), no Brasil, além de sua dimensão política e econômica, nacional e internacional, se caracteriza com delineamentos machistas, racistas e heteronormativos, afetando diretamente grupos identitários, entre os quais os de mulheres, campesinos, étnico-raciais e LGBTs. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar algumas implicações de tendências (ultra)conservadoras nas políticas educacionais no trato das questões de gênero e sexualidade sem desconsiderar outras interseccionalidades. A análise tem como aporte teórico referenciais que fazem a interface educação, gênero e relações étnico-raciais. É de abordagem qualitativa, constituindo-se de dois eixos: bibliográfico e documental. O avanço expressivo, em especial na esfera política, de tendências supra citadas atua no desmonte de direitos relacionados às questões de gênero na esfera da educação, articulando-se às questões étnico-raciais e de orientação sexual, caracterizando-se assim em retrocessos que operam interseccionalmente.

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Weintraub, Ana Cecília Andrade de Moraes, Michelle de Sousa Vasconcellos, Isabella Teixeira Bastos, Felipe Lessa da Fonseca, and Alberto Olavo Advíncula Reis. "Socio demographic characterization of users of Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Care Centers in the state of São Paulo." Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) 30, no. 3 (September 2013): 383–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0103-166x2013000300008.

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The "Centros de Atenção Psicossocial Infanto-Juvenil" are dispositives of treatment for children and adolescents suffering from severe mental disorders. This article describes sociodemografic characteristics of users of those centers between September 2008 and February 2009 in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Data from active files randomly selected was collected in 19 Centers in the state of São Paulo. The characteristics analyzed were divided in four groups of variables: identity; living conditions; family structure; schooling and occupation. The results indicated a higher concentration of users between 10 to 14 years-old; prevalence of males; tendency to nuclear and reduced family arrangements (45%); care primarily given by the mother (57%) and high frequency of users attending the regular school (86%). It was possible to identify a well-defined socio demographic profile of users, with differences regarding gender, attending the regular school and/or other institutions, as well as sharing a nuclear family arrangement.

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Carvalho, Laura Martins de, and Cláudia Maria Bógus. "Gender and Social Justice in Urban Agriculture: The Network of Agroecological and Peripheral Female Urban Farmers from São Paulo." Social Sciences 9, no. 8 (July 22, 2020): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci9080127.

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This article analyses women’s participation in the ‘Network of Agroecological and Peripheral Female Urban Farmers’, an agroecological urban agriculture grassroots network in São Paulo, Brazil. The methodology used was participant observation. The following procedures were used to produce the data: participation in three workshops, direct observation, field notes, and an in-depth interview with two of the organizers and three participants. The results show that the Network engendered the formation of a popular feminist collective identity, as it fostered the awareness of oppressive social structures, such as gender inequality and violence against women, of which many participants were survivors. From a technical standpoint, the Network seeks to expand its scope of action, increase the number of participants, establish new partnerships and access multiple sources of funding to obtain greater autonomy from São Paulo City Council.

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Guimarães, Thayse Figueira, and Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes. "Creative entextualizations of discourses about race in multi-sited discursive practices in the Brazilian ‘periphery’." AILA Review 30 (December 31, 2017): 27–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aila.00002.gui.

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This paper focuses on Luan’s race performances both on the web and in classroom interaction. Luan is a black young man, who identifies himself as gay. The study is part of a multi-sited ethnographic piece of research on a group of high-school students in the state sector, in the ‘periphery’ of a town on the Rio de Janeiro State north coast, Brazil. The paper is guided by performance and entextualization theorizing. The analysis draws attention to the circulation of racial identity signs, intersected with gender/sexuality meanings, bringing to light what we call creative entextualizations, i.e. the gaps Luan finds to re-organize the meanings in the discursive practices in which he is engaged. The analyses point to positionings and innovative identity performances which come up in conjunction with essentialized views, always perceptible amidst struggles and disputes. Because it draws attention to mobile lives in the ‘periphery’, this study may be said to explode the traditional boundaries between ‘center’ and ‘periphery’.

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ANDREWS, GEORGE REID. "Elisa Larkin Nascimento, The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race and Gender in Brazil (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007), pp. xii+324, $49.50, hb." Journal of Latin American Studies 40, no. 1 (February 2008): 170–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x07003847.

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Vanderlaan, Doug P., Ray Blanchard, Kenneth J. Zucker, Raffael Massuda, Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari, André Oliveira Borba, Angelo Bradelli Costa, et al. "BIRTH ORDER AND ANDROPHILIC MALE-TO-FEMALE TRANSSEXUALISM IN BRAZIL." Journal of Biosocial Science 49, no. 4 (November 7, 2016): 527–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932016000584.

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SummaryPrevious research has indicated that biological older brothers increase the odds of androphilia in males. This finding has been termed thefraternal birth order effect. Thematernal immune hypothesissuggests that this effect reflects the progressive immunization of some mothers to male-specific antigens involved in fetal male brain masculinization. Exposure to these antigens, as a result of carrying earlier-born sons, is hypothesized to produce maternal immune responses towards later-born sons, thus leading to female-typical neural development of brain regions underlying sexual orientation. Because this hypothesis posits mechanisms that have the potential to be active in any situation where a mother gestates repeated male fetuses, a key prediction is that the fraternal birth order effect should be observable in diverse populations. The present study assessed the association between sexual orientation and birth order in androphilic male-to-female transsexuals in Brazil, a previously unexamined population. Male-to-female transsexuals who reported attraction to males were recruited from a specialty gender identity service in southern Brazil (n=118) and a comparison group of gynephilic non-transsexual men (n=143) was recruited at the same hospital. Logistic regression showed that the transsexual group had significantly more older brothers and other siblings. These effects were independent of one another and consistent with previous studies of birth order and male sexual orientation. The presence of the fraternal birth order effect in the present sample provides further evidence of the ubiquity of this effect and, therefore, lends support to the maternal immune hypothesis as an explanation of androphilic sexual orientation in some male-to-female transsexuals.

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Ogneva, Elena. "In Search of Identity: A Slave, a Half-Blood, a Senhora." Literature of the Americas, no. 9 (2020): 261–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2020-9-261-282.

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The present article is devoted to the study of the genesis of the “strong woman” type in Latin American prose. It shows that this type, traditionally associated with the modern novel, has appeared in the literature of the continent as early as in the XIX century. The analysis of female images created in the cult novels of leading Latin American writers (an Argentinean José Mármol, a Cuban Cirilo Villaverde and Brazilian Bernardo Guimarães and José de Alencar) during the period of formation of young nations, allows to conclude that they bear the imprint of a chaotic contradiction -based reality. There is a pattern performed by the “strong” female characters of the analyzed novels, marked by the features of social, gender, and racial hybridity; in search of their identity they assert themselves in one way or another in the world of men. The article examines various means via which the characters manage to acquire their own identity, be it dissociation from the civilizing principle, unwillingness or inability to recognize their own “roots”, or “self -actualization” attempts of a talented person. Thus, María Josefa Ezcurra in Amalia by Mármol and Aurelia in Senhora by Alencar – each in her own way – become “men in women’s guise”: the image of the former embodies the “barbaric” essence of young Argentina; the image of the latter embodies “masculine” pragmatism of the transitional era in Brazil. The daring and self -willed Cecilia Valdés from Villaverde's eponymous novel, the “victim” and “executioner” of a white man, painfully realizes her place in the mestizo society of colonial Cuba, passions and vices of which have determined her character. At the bottom of this scale of self -determination in prose of period there is a slave, as it is illustrated in Bernardo Guimarães’s novel Isaura, The Slave Girl.

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Monteiro, Simone, Fátima Cecchetto, Eliane Vargas, and Claudia Mora. "Sexual Diversity and Vulnerability to AIDS: the Role of Sexual Identity and Gender in the Perception of Risk by Young People (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)." Sexuality Research and Social Policy 7, no. 4 (November 16, 2010): 270–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-010-0030-1.

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Carvalho, Guilherme Paiva de, and Aryanne Sérgia Queiroz de Oliveira. "Gênero, transexualidade e educação: reconhecimento e dificuldades para emancipação." Revista Educação e Emancipação 10, no. 4 (January 12, 2018): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2358-4319.v10n4especialp58-75.

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O artigo analisa a relação entre gênero, transexualidade e educação, refletindo sobre o reconhecimento do sujeito transexual na instituição educacional no Brasil. Para tanto, o estudo discute o conceito de identidade de gênero e transexualidade a partir do ponto de vista do saber médico e das ciências humanas. Por meio de entrevistas com professores/as do ensino superior no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, a pesquisa mostra que a problemática de gênero é pouco estudada no sistema educacional. Considerando a perspectiva dos/as professores/ as entrevistados/as, apesar do questionamento acerca da teoria da oposição binária da sexualidade, os discursos evidenciam a falta de reconhecimento do sujeito transexual na educação superior no Brasil.Palavras-chave: Gênero. Transexualidade. Educação. Gender, transsexuality and education: recognition and difficulties for emancipationABSTRACTThis paper analyses the relationship between gender, transsexuality and education, refl ecting about the recognition of the transsexual subject in the educational institution in Brazil. In order to do so, the study discusses the concept of gender identity and transsexuality from the standpoint of medicals knowledge and humans sciences. By means of interviews with professors of the higher education in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, the research shows that the gender problematic is little studied in the educational system. Considering the vision of the professors interviewed, in spite of the questioning about the theory of the binary opposition of sexuality, the discourses evidences the lack of recognition of the transsexual subject in higher education in Brazil.Keywords: Gender. Transsexuality. Education. Género, transexualidad y educación: reconocimiento y dificultades para emancipaciónRESUMENEl artículo analiza la relación entre género, transexualidad y educación, refl exionando sobre el reconocimiento del sujeto transexual en la institución educativa en Brasil. Para ello, el estudio discute el concepto de identidad de género y transexualidad desde el punto de vista del saber médico y de las ciencias humanas. A través de entrevistas com profesores (as) de la enseñanza superior en el Estado de Rio Grande do Norte, la investigación evidencia que la problemática de género es poco estudiada en el sistema educativo. Considerando la perspectiva de los (as) profesores (as) entrevistados (as), pese el cuestionamiento acerca de la teoría de la oposición binaria de la sexualidad, los discursos evidencian la falta de reconocimiento del sujeto transexual en la educación superior en Brasil.Palabras clave: Género. Transexualidad. Educación.

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