Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

From the beginning of the 1950s, the visits of tourists from abroad to the Spanish coasts became more and more frequent. The massive influx of visitors meant the arrival of remarkable novelties in fashions and customs, especially in places of leisure, where they had contact with the national population. This paper aims, on the one hand, to analyse the discourses from the Spanish Catholic Church, an institution very concerned about the moral control of Spanish women and women’s summer fashion, but whose arguments have not been studied in detail in relation to tourism. On the other hand, it incorporates a new approachby collecting the opinions expressed in the British press, which allows us to observe the impact of this type of discourse in one of the leading countries in the emission of tourists. For that purpose, we have used different bibliographical sources, archival and newspaper documentation related to tourism and the Catholic religion, as well as British newspapers. 

The Red UNA STEM is a network founded by four professors from two faculties of the Universidad Nacional (UNA): Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales and Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra y el Mar. This project aims to permeate and promote scientific knowledge and skills in children and adolescents, making an important effort in the inclusion of gender issues in many of the activities organized, in addition to generate and publicize learning opportunities in the scientific area, as well as promoting STEM careers and research projects among students and faculty members from the UNA. In this paper, we summarize the experiences of this network during the first year of its creation, in order to promote the creation of similar initiatives to reach the general public and provide spaces for children, adolescents and adults to learn about technology and science through the use of different tools as Scratch Jr., Scratch and Open Roberta as well as interact with scientific content and with the people doing scientific research.

Recently, in social networks such as Instagram, it is common to find non-normative bodies challenging the hegemonic ideals that govern over the bodies. Focusing on the activism in social networks, this investigation addresses the representations and narratives about the female body of three Body Positive Fers. At the same time, this study includes three other types of participants: specialists in gender topics, body and Body Positive; fat activists and/or Body Neutrality with a critical perspective about the Body Positive movement; and followers of Body Positive accounts. Firstly, we identify the digital trajectories, profiles and content of the Instagrammers. Secondly, we analyze the representations of the female body that they show on their profiles. Thirdly, we examine the narratives about the female body that Instagrammers promote as a response to hegemonical body ideals.

This article analyzes the determinants of age at first childbearing among young women in Spain. First, it provides a theoretical, conceptual and empirical review on the age as one of the determinants of first motherhood. Then, it analyses the results of the Synthetic Report of 2019 Youth Maternity Study performed by the Queen Sofia Center on Adolescence and Youth. Finally, a quantitative study is conducted with the sample of mothers, with the aim of analyzing the gender implications of variables influencing age at first childbearing. Age cohort, level of studies, employment and couple situation and availability of independent housing appear as the main determinant categories of an unwanted untimely motherhood pattern, characterized by unstable couple situations that affect the trajectory of women’s life. The results indicate the need to generate public policies for equality and social justice. 

García León, Javier E. Espectáculo, normalizacióny representaciones otras. Las personastransgénero en la prensa y el cine de Colombia yVenezuela. Berlín: Peter Lang, 2021. 194 pp.ISBN: 9783631827055.

This article takes up the contributions of feminist research to the field of Social Studies of Science and Technology. From an ethnographic perspective, it places the focus on the technologies aimed at indigenous Chaco women in development projects implemented by ecclesial initiatives in the last two decades of the 20th century that were aimed at promoting the participation of indigenous women in the public sphere. It analyzes the implications of the joint action of two technologies –the pedal sewing machine and the community room– in the work undertaken by missionary women with indigenous women from Chaco that allow us to explain the adoption of these technologies as a socio-historically situated phenomenon. The article uses the concepts «fluidity», «agency», and «functioning-non-functioning» of technologies from a gender perspective.

This work addresses the issue of erography from a subversive perspective. It is a question of going against the ideology framed by the patriarchal family and reflected in the society that was inspired by it, the patriarchal society. Based on the radical American feminism of the late 20th century, it will be a question of highlighting the way in which the authors narrate the body-sex in order to transgress the values traditionally attributed to the phallocentric family. Thus, this study wants to consider the narration of the sex-body as a weapon of resistance to the ideology spread long-term by the patriarchal family and on which the patriarchate was based, in order to subvert the latter.

The Mexican’s Conditional Cash Transfer program, Progresa, included gender equality and empowerment of women as part of its original design goals. Progresa’s gender approach was implemented in two ways. First, the program allocated a larger cash incentive for girls to attend school than for boys and mothers, rather than fathers, received the cash payments to alter intra-household relations and promote gender equality. This article argues that institutions, actors and ideas could explain the Progresa gendered design. Policy entrepreneurs –femocratas, convinced by gender equality ideas and integrated in gender mainstreaming institutions– have designed Progresa with gender equality objectives.

Puleo, Alicia H. Ser feministas. Pensamiento yacción. Editorial Cátedra, 2020. 280 pp. ISBN:978-84-9134-630-2.

Virtual assistants are everywhere, and most of these artifacts come by default with a female name and voice. This article refers to Science, Technology and Society (STS) studies to analyze the reproduction of gender bias in the discourse of Alexa virtual assistant, making use of the French Discourse Analysis method. From the interaction with Alexa and comparison of its responses with those found in previous surveys, it is identified the discursive and ideological formations in such speech, aiming to find stereotypic patterns. By workingon the identification of unconscious gender biases in the discourse, approaching Human-Computer Interaction, this study presents how the prejudice-laden patriarchal culture presents itself in mediation with technology. By analyzing the assistant’s answers to genderrelated interactions, an awareness can be developed to help with a strategy of technological solutions that adjust this experience and create a less harmful and more inclusive design.