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Summary
This text focuses on one specific case of lesbian mothering in Brazil, which enjoyed great media coverage. Cássia Eller was a nationally known singer and an out lesbian, as well as a mother of a boy. Since her death, for the first time in Brazil the subject of lesbian mothering made the headlines and gained the attention of the national media, of specialists and of the general public.

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This article brings a discussion about the problems faced by me during my fieldwork. Differently to authors from the anthology Women in Field that referenced the restriction of the work and the action that they had suffered by the fact of being women entering in spaces, societies and subjects considered to be masculine; my experience seemed as opposite, even so has generated the same difficulty in the attainment of the data. It was the men who felt hindered on their behaviors and actions by considering that they were in a feminine space: a human reproduction clinic. At the end of the discussion brought by the article, we perceive that the difficulties that resulted from the fieldwork bring fundamental questions to the research, that several times were not been placed in its beginning.

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This article considers analyzing it the relations between workers and workers of a transnational company, from the narratives of a couple that worked in the same one in the decades of 40 and 50. The story of the related couple allowed the accomplishment of comparisons with data gotten in previous research (2001) in a pertaining plant to the company in question. In the relations they are distinguished it sexual division of the work and the sexual character as symbolic mechanisms of exclusion of the women, mainly the laborers, of the searched plants, whose intention is to keep the “masculine supremacy” in the productive area.

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This article presents some analysis around the forms that gender and sexuality are present in self-help books, especially directed to partner’s courting and relationship maintenance. This literature presents conjugality like a norm that overrides the heterosexuality norm. Therefore the masculinities and femininities are presented in line with the heterosexuality.

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This paper aims to put into perspective health anthropology along with rural anthropology, within an approach of sexuality. It also hopes to revise the imaginary of the scientific medicine, practiced by the Health Clinic in the rural community of Goiabeiras, in the Northeast of Brazil, the imaginary of common citizens, based on a pretentious endogamy of local groups, on the kinship, and the loving libidinal imaginary produced by intense passions. Therefore, the intention here is to give an ethnographic analysis or, in other words, to analyze the manipulation, through rumors in a male dominated culture, of the conceptions between health and illness, in what deals with the marital relations and extra-marriage of the locals. In brief, the main objective is to bring into light the reasons, anchored in the ethics of the affects; such reason is unknown by that Health Clinic.

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From the observations realized in a research on the subject of the gender relations into the horse sport, only olympic sport on which men and women compete in one same category, I criticize the transposition of the sexual dichotomy “man – woman” for a gender dichotomy “male – female”, present in diverse feminist texts. The analysis realized in this field explicit the variety of possibilities of construction of gender identities, also for beyond the different sexual options, and impose the redefinition of hegemonies and subalternities, not more as fixed gender attributes, but as being contextually constituted. In this perspective, the analysis of the emotions involved in this sport: the courage , the fear and the ones that involve the relationship with the horse, draws new gender identities and different power relations among these.

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In this article, I do a brief exposition of some ways to research the constitution of the person in environments on-line. Born of dialogues between the Anthropology of the Person, the Psychology and the emergent Anthropology of Cyberspace, I think to do a reflection on “who we are that we are in constituting today in daily construction, evidence and appropriation of cyberspace”. Like an indicative text, these reflections only summarize notes and ideas of the research that I come in recent years doing in Psychology and the Anthropology, having as fieldwork the cyberspace.

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This text focuses on two researches, one carried out in Brazil and another in Portugal, involving a convergent subject: sexuality amongst young people from rural environments. It addresses a modified version of the analytical part of a research carried out in the rural district of Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, which has similarities to the Portuguese context, based on some data from an on-going empirical research in a village located in Lower Alentejo, Portugal. Emphasis is placed on young people from a rural environment, mainly those who are between different spaces (rural to urban or urban to rural, and other migrations abroad), to apprehend some of the similarities and differences regarding sexuality experiences among these different subjects.

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The term homoparenthood is a political strategy and to give visibility to gays, lesbians and transsexuals, who are or wish to become fathers and mothers. Even if, at present, parenthood represents a flag for the homosexual movement, it is a real issue in the lives of many. Taking into account the plurality of family configurations that these situations allow, we want to understand from the speech of the homosexual militants we interviewed, if homosexuality is relevant in the parental relationship. We tried to explicit the hetero-normativity that circumscribes the debate on parenthood and its daily exercise.

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