[Images and representations of the female body in Brazilian magazines]. / Droga de corpo! Imagens e representações do corpo feminino em revistas brasileiras.

This documentary, qualitative, descriptive study has the objective to analyze images and representations of the female body and their relation to drug use in the content of articles published in four magazines with national circulation (Veja, Isto E, Boa Forma, Claúdia). The articles selected were submitted to the technique of content analysis, with three thematic groups identified: the body as an incentive to use drugs; risks to the body resulting from drug use; and the search for the perfect body through drug use. The data showed that the media reproduces rigid aesthetic standards, exposing women to social and health offenses that stimulate drug use, either autonomously or by prescription. The search for beauty and the appeal to feminine eroticism, published through the communication channels analyzed limit the social importance of women by using images that link them to the status of sexual object.

[Racism and health: social representation of women and professionals about the color/race issue]. / Racismo e saúde: representações sociais de mulheres e profissionais sobre o quesito cor/raça.

This is a multimethodology study founded on the Social Representations Theory, with the objective of aprehending the representations that the color issue has for the users and professionals of public health care services. The study was performed at Public Basic Health Units in Salvador, with 103 subjects. Data collection was performed using the Free Word-Association Test and semi-structured interviews. Factorial Correspondence Analysis and thematic analysis was used. Results showed an opposition of answers among people who classified themselves as white and black, and an opposition between the younger and older people. Representations about the color issue portray the complexity involved in racial classification and the need to implement studies on health policies and Brazilian races.

Cuestiones de géneroen las tesis doctorales sobreEnfermería en España / Gender issues in doctoral theses on Nursing in Spain

Objetivos: analizar la producción científica de Enfermería en Españasegún el sexo de las personas involucradas en dicha produccióny otras variables del contexto.Metodología: estudio de naturaleza cuantitativa. Los datos fueronrecolectados en la base TESEO, a través de acceso electrónico, a partirde los términos de búsqueda: “Enfermería, enfermera, enfermero”.El análisis se hizo mediante la lectura de los títulos y resúmenes,teniendo en cuenta el sexo como referencia empírica para identificacióny discusión de los rasgos de género.Resultados: fueron identificadas 89 tesis, producidas mayoritariamenteen los últimos cinco años; la autoría femenina fue del 69,3%;la mayoría fueron dirigidas por hombres (74,2%) y solamente el 27%de los tribunales tenían mujeres en la presidencia. Las principalesáreas de las tesis eran: Educación, Enfermería, Psicología y Medicina.Destaca el tema trabajo, incluyendo estrés y condiciones del desarrollode las actividades del personal de Enfermería.Conclusión: aunque las mujeres estén más representadas como autorasde las tesis, la proporción es inferior a la que hay en el total deprofesionales de Enfermería del país. Por otra parte, las mayores proporcionesde hombres en los tribunales indica la dificultad de las mujeresy, en concreto, de las enfermeras, para ocupar cargos de mayorprestigio social, reproduciéndose las relaciones desiguales de géneroy distribución del poder dentro de la profesión y en la universidad,aunque es importante subrayar que el desarrollo de la investigación ligadaa cursos de doctorado propios de la Enfermería aún son pocos (AU)

Objectives: to analyse scientific production of nursing in Spainaccording the gender of the individuals involved in such productionand other context variables.Methodology: quantitative study. Data were gathered in the TESEOdatabase through electronic accesses based on the search terms:nursing, female nurse, male nurse. The analysis was carried out byreading of the titles and summaries, taking into account the genderas empiric reference for identification and discussion of the gender’straits.Results: 89 thesis were identified which had been produced mainlyin the last five years, female authorship was 69,3%; most of thesewere directed by men (74,2%) and only 27% of the doctoral committeeswere chaired by women. The main areas of the theses were:education, nursing, psychology and medicine. The most covered itemwas work, including occupational stress and working conditions ofnursing personnel.Conclusion: even though women account for a large amount of thesisauthorship, the proportion is lower to that of the total number ofnursing professionals in the country. On the other hand, the greaternumber of men in the doctoral committee indicated the difficultiesfound by women, and particularly by nurses, to hold posts of greatersocial prestige, which reproduces the unequal relationships of genderand power distribution in the profession as well as in the university.It is however important to highlight that there are still few researchprojects associated with doctorate courses in nursing (AU)

[Progression of course content within the framework of curriculum requirements: gender in nursing education]. / Transversalidade de conteúdos nas diretrizes curriculares: o gênero no ensino da enfermagem.

This article reviews the concept of gender in Nursing education at Federal University of Bahia based on Brazilian Curriculum Requirements for Graduate Nursing Programs. The possibility of inserting this concept as a progressive content into an integrated curriculum is presented, originating from experience obtained with a subject matter-based curriculum. The discussion of this proposal aims at contributing to other educational institutions which are currently experiencing a process of curriculum change. This article highlights some theoretical and methodological possibilities that might lead to an easier grasp of reality based on such concept. It even portrays the way this concept can be of use in understanding how institutions and health practices are put together and the ways in which they could be modified.

[Gender indicators of nursing care for women]. / Indicadores de gênero da assistência de enfermagem às mulheres.

This text presents a study-carried out at a healthcare unit in Salvador/Bahia, with the purpose of building quality indicators for nursing care from a gender perspective. The construction of the indicators occurred by means of an investigation that analyzed women's ideas about the pre-natal nursing assistance provided to them, based on the identifications of actions that promote autonomy, merit, and participation. Data collecting was based on a semi-structured interview with 14 women that are users of prenatal nursing care and accepted to participate in this study and had also been cared by a nurse in a previous pregnancy or during the present one. Two kinds of gender indicators in nursing care were built: practical indicators and strategic gender indicators.