Confinamento e vastidão: a representação feminina e a subversão em The magic toyshop

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Carmilla e Sabella: em busca de uma identidade feminina em Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu e Tanith Lee

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

Desvendando práticas familiares e escolares a partir das relações de gênero: uma reflexão sobre a educação de meninos e meninas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Revendo o gênero: a representação da mulher no Bildungsroman feminino contemporâneo

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

Identidades em movimento: a representação feminina e as relações de gênero na obra de Angela Carter

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Mulheres na politica e na mídia Brasileira: breve histórico e cenário atual

Brazil was one of the four countries of Latin America to be elected in this century, the first time a woman for president. But does the fact of having a woman in the highest office of the Republic reflects the reality of women's political participation in Brazil? And how will the female representation in the media of the country? To answer these questions, this article is a literature review of these topics, showing that, despite having a woman in the highest office of the Republic, women's political participation and their representation in the media is lagging behind.

A mulher escrita: notas sobre a (in)visibilidade feminina no material didático do ensino médio de Língua Portuguesa e Literatura do estado de São Paulo

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Promoting gender equality in responses to climate change: The case of Kenya

The paper discusses how Kenyan policies and organisations address gender equality in climate change-related responses. The political support for gender issues is reflected in presidential directives on various actions for achieving gender equality such as the establishment of gender desk officers and ensuring 30 per cent female representation in government. Despite the well-advanced gender mainstreaming policy in Kenya, few policies focus on climate change and even fewer on its inter-linkages with gender. At the field level, encrusted traditions, inadequately trained staff, limited financial resources, and limited awareness of the inter-linkages between gender and climate change remain major challenges to promoting gender equality in the work of government organisations. The paper thus proposes measures for addressing these challenges and strengthening gender equality in responses to climate change.

Advances in EU Gender Equality: Missing the mark? EPIN [Working] Paper No. 41/September 2014

Gender balance has been a particularly salient issue in the recent process of formulating the list of designated commissioners. Jean-Claude Juncker’s success, as President-elect of the European Commission, in securing the designation of nine women as commissioners should be seen in perspective. Female representation in top EU positions remains low. This paper analyses the EP committees, finding a clear divergence in legislative influence between committees chaired by men and women. Although female political representation has been increasing, this is happening at a very slow pace and the most influential leadership roles in the EP remain dominated by men. This raises questions of the possible need to resort to stronger measures to improve female representation in the EU institutions.

Women, computing and the 'ideal worker': A comparison of professional occupations

In this paper we use recent census data supplemented with case study evidence to investigate the extent to which professional computing occupations in Australia are constructed around the notion of an ‘ideal’ worker. Census data are used to compare computer professionals with other selected professional occupational groups, illustrating different models of accommodating (or not accommodating) workers who do not fit the ideal model. The computer professionals group is shown to be distinctive in combining low but consistent levels of female representation across age groups, average rates of parenthood and minimal provisions for working-time flexibility. One strategy employed by women in this environment is selection of relatively routine technical roles over more time intensive consultancy based work.

Ulisses e o feminino: eros e epos

Na Odisseia, as errâncias de um homem à procura de um destino e em luta sem tréguas pela sobrevivência, contra as contingências naturais da vida, constituem um dos motores da narrativa da viagem de regresso de Ulisses. No relato das suas aventuras aparecem um conjunto de estadias localizadas em sítios fantásticos e de encontros com figuras não humanas, geralmente representadas no feminino. Com base numa leitura dos célebres episódios eróticos de Circe, de Calipso e de Nausícaa, pretende-se neste artigo analisar como a díade epos-eros contribuiu para uma caracterização mais humanizada das experiências de vida de um herói astucioso e versátil, que foi capaz de resistir a todos os perigos e nunca se deixou iludir pelas tentações que punham em risco o seu nostos.

Era uma vez... Branca de Neve e a representação feminina no conto clássico e no filme espelho, espelho meu

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar as mudanças ocorridas na representação feminina, ao longo do tempo, em contos de fadas e suas adaptações, através de um viés comparativo. Para esta pesquisa, selecionamos como corpus as duas versões do conto “Branca de Neve”, dos Irmãos Grimm – uma publicada entre os anos de 1812 e 1815 e a outra publicada em 1822 –, e o filme Espelho, espelho meu (2012), dirigido por Tarsem Singh com história de Melissa Wallack e roteiro de Jason Keller e Marc Klein. Nossa análise pauta-se nas informações obtidas em História da vida privada, organizada por Georges Duby e Philiphe Ariès (1991) e Minha história das mulheres, de Michelle Perrot (2008). Como principal fundamentação teórica, utilizamos as concepções de Linda Hutcheon, em especial aquelas constantes em seu livro Uma teoria da adaptação (2013). Além disso, durante a escrita desta dissertação, também fizemos uso dos estudos de Bruno Bettelheim (2007), Tomás Enrique Creus (2006) e Carl Gustav Jung (2000). Ao longo deste estudo, procuramos ainda compreender as mudanças na representação feminina nos contos de fadas clássicos, comparando-se as adaptações referidas, relacionando-as com as alterações sociais acontecidas ao longo do tempo.

Prospects for women's legislative representation in postsocialist Europe: the views of female politicians

Research on women’s political representation in post-socialist Europe has highlighted the role of cultural and political factors in obstructing women’s access to legislative power, such as the prevalence of traditional gender stereotypes, electoral systems, and the absence of a feminist movement. Yet the role of women political elites in enhancing or hindering women’s access to political power in the region has so far remained uncharted. This article seeks to fill some of the existing gaps in this literature by examining the views of women politicians with regard to women’s political underrepresentation and their assessments of strategies for redressing this imbalance. Findings from the analysis reveal that although women politicians recognize gender inequalities in representation as a problem requiring intervention, how the problem is perceived, and the preferred measures to deal with it, is largely shaped by the social and cultural context in which these actors are embedded.

The Representation of the Female Body in the Multimedia Works of Regina José Galindo

The female body is central to the performance art, poetry and blog site interventions of Guatemalan Regina José Galindo. While Galindo is best known for her performance work, this article compares the hereto overlooked, distinctive and often shocking representations of the female body across her multimedia outputs. We first consider the ways in which, in all three media, Galindo presents an ‘excessive’, carnivalised, grotesque and abject female body. Second, we analyse representations of the female body that has been subjected to violence at a private and public level. In so doing, we show how Galindo not only contests hegemonic visions of gender and (national) identity but also challenges the viewer/reader to engage with, rather than look away from, the violence to which women are subjected in patriarchal society.

‘Designer Vaginas': The Representation of Female Genitals on Canadian Cosmetic Surgeons' Websites

This thesis critically examines the online marketing tactics of 10 (English language) Canadian cosmetic surgery clinics’ websites that offer Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (FGCS), specifically, labiaplasty (labial reduction) and vaginoplasty (vaginal tightening). Drawing on a qualitative Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) and a feminist-informed social constructionist framework (Lazar, 2007), I examine how FGCS discourses reiterate and reinforce heteronormative sexual scripts for women, and impose restrictive models of femininity through the pathologization of genital diversity and the appropriation of postfeminist and neoliberal discourses of individual choice and empowerment. I explore feminist analyses of the links between FGCS and contemporary Western women’s postfeminist subjectivity, and the reconfiguration of women’s sexual agency, to better understand what these contemporary shifts may mean for women’s sexual anxiety and expression. My analysis highlights several discourses that organize the online marketing material of Canadian FGCS websites, including: the pathologization of genital diversity; restrictive models of femininity; heteronormative sexual scripts; neoliberal and post-feminist rhetorics of individual choice and empowerment; and psychological and sexual transformation. Overall, these discourses undermine acceptance of women’s genital diversity, legitimize the FGCS industry and frame FGCS as the only viable solution to alleviate women’s genital and sexual distress despite the lack of evidence regarding the long-term benefits and risks of these procedures, and the recommendations against FGCS by professional medical organizations.