"La question des variations du développement génital fait l'objet d'une controverse qui oppose, d'un côté, les médecins qui, pendant longtemps, ont eu le monopole de la qualification médicale de la question et de l'autre, des collectifs de personnes concernées. Ceux-ci militent pour la reconnaissance des identités intersexes et l'interdiction des i...
The objective of this article is to analyze, from a gender perspective, the construction process of the social stigma of the prostitute in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador, its differentiated effects on the lives of women and the resistance mechanisms used by them to lessen or counteract it. The study, the first to address the issue of prostitution in th...
Published in AIDS and behavior
El estigma percibido detetiza la participación en la atención de VIH y está fuertemente moldeado por la cultura. Sin embargo, pocas medidas de estigma consideran cómo las capacidades culturales que significan “personalidad plena” podrían ser utilizadas para resistir el estigma. Mediante la aplicación de una teoría que conceptualiza cómo los mecanis...
Objective: To identify some aspects related to the stigma of healthcare workers towards the homeless who consume psychoactive substances. Methods: To achieve this objective, a qualitative study with a hermeneutic approach and descriptive scope was carried out, through the categorical analysis of transcriptions of recorded speeches from two focus gr...
RESUMO Ganso é um termo informalmente adotado por membros da Polícia Militar do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (PMERJ) destinado a pessoas que apresentam alguma forma de envolvimento com drogas ilícitas. Neste artigo, analisaremos a adoção do termo para dois grupos distintos, o primeiro composto por indivíduos suspeitos de uso ou tráfico de drogas e o se...
Fatphobia can be understood as attitudes, negative social stereotypes, and prejudices towards overweight people (Harris et al., 1990), which can be accompanied by acts of violence (Noronha & Deufel, 2014), environmental barriers (Friedman et al., 2008) or social barriers (De Domingo & Lopez, 2014). Thus, "fatphobia" composes a system of oppression ...
Abstract In the compilation of the urban chronicles by Pedro Lemebel, Loco afán. Crónicas de sidario, the representation of the body is highlighted by the frequency in which it appears, as well as by the different forms in which it is presented. Several matters such as sexual diversity, AIDS, social injustice and marginalization, are given corporal...
Resumen: El objetivo del artículo fue realizar una aproximación a los estigmas que se tejen alrededor de las personas mayores LGBT, para lo cual se diseñó una investigación cualitativa con un enfoque hermenéutico-interpretativo, utilizándose una muestra por conveniencia, en la cual participaron diez personas mayores LGBT, de los cuales siete fueron...
Resumo Este artigo analisa estigmas ligados à ocupação para moradia, quando esse direito se depara com restrições ambientais, e questiona o paradigma que associa a degradação ambiental à ocupação informal do solo e à pobreza urbana. O estudo que deu origem ao artigo foi conduzido em uma área ambientalmente frágil, disputada e pressionada por ocupaç...
Since scholars have come into contact with Erving Goffman's work, "Stigma: Notes on the Handling of Deteriorated Identity," many issues have been discussed in an interdisciplinary way on the subject of stigma, at the individual level and, more recently, in the organizational level. At this level, there are studies on organizations that have been st...
