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Science as an object of knowledge has been a central concern of the social sciences since the first decades of the 20th century. However, the object itself is neither static nor unchanging, and has been transformed over time. In recent decades, the innovative approach of gender studies has gained considerable ground in the social studies of science. While some of them have paid attention to the relations of the professional field with the family sphere and have investigated the ways in which structural factors of the life course play an important role in research careers, there are still few theoretical and empirical contributions that think of science as productive work highly articulated with social reproduction. Although this axis of enquiry is still incipient in social studies of science, it is consolidated within the social sciences hand in hand with labour studies and feminist economics. Within the framework of the important contributions made, this paper seeks to review the existing literature and a conceptual approach to the understanding of scientific work and its articulations with reproductive work, taking gender as a category of analysis. The paper is organised in four parts: in the first section we will review the critiques of the concept of work inherited from modernity and we will focus on thinking of science as work with specificities; in the second section we will address the processes of social reproduction in terms of the articulation of spheres; in the third section we will consider the study of gender and science; in the fourth section, we will describe the way in which this conceptual proposal operates in the empirical study carried out; finally, we will present a systematisation of the concepts developed throughout the paper and a conceptual approach to their approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports an analysis of the building of gender awareness through a pedagogical intervention on men and also masculinities from a genderbased perspective in educational spaces in Guadalajara, Mexico. The work is resultant from the recollection of experiences of a workshop performed with four different groups composed of men and women. The outcomes show the way in which all the participants reflect and dialogue about the meanings, practices, identifications and gender relations of men. Based on the theoretical contributions from constructivism in education and gender studies on men, it is advocated the notion of "building gender awareness" as a proposal of a theoretical and political category to understand the process of reflexivity. The people participating in this process, through reflection of the personal experience and collective dialogue, were able to identify various problematic gender practices among men such as violence, risk behaviors and lack of co-responsibility at home, school, work, as well as in the exercise of sexuality and affective relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modern historical construction of individual subjetivity and the heterosexual division of the body, had influences in the aesthetic classic and modem discourses, which one paradoxically ended by making invisible the spectator and the artist body as sexual-generic subjects. The body art in the beginnings of 1960, represented for the artists a change in the diverse conceptions and aesthetic possibilities about the body and the gaze. The present paper develops a historical framework about the modern body and die influence of this in the modem feminist performance. Based in Chantal Pcñalosa's performance: "Sobre la Av. México", this paper develops a theoretical critic about the performance body, as a politic of presence, whereby modifies and reconsiders the role of the gaze and the body as cmpathic spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes, from a theoretical point of view, the development of an explanation of Mexican youth social vulnerability through some statistical evidence, which showed the weakness of institutions, which have been favorable to the reproduction of gender inequality that is linked at the same time to the context of poverty and social inequality. It is concluded that in Mexico City precarious youth plays in various ways despite the institutionalization of the different social assistance programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the becoming-cyborg as a counter-sexual political imposture, as a reverse and accident of pharmaco-pornographic subjectivation. Our hypothesis is that human beings, technical-natural objects of knowledge, are able to un-inscribe the biological truths that have become flesh in their bodies, by means of a cyborg-becoming, that is, the rewriting of the organic file of the body from experimental practices that trigger micropolitics of perceptions and affects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the spatial distribution of corruption index at state level in Mexico between 2001 and 2010. The corruption index shows a non-random pattern and is detected that the cluster of states is located at country center. It's used GDP as determinant of corruption index, the level government intervention and gender issues. The results show that there is a spillover effect for corruption among states in almost all years. There is a positive relation between GDP and corruption. Policy implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a theoretical framework that links gender perspective-public budgets with the modernization of the public administration, taking as the starting point its parallelism with the result-oriented management and public finances. Also, it focuses in the advances in the implementation of budgets for gender in the world and it discussed its scope and limitations in the case of Mexico, based on the review of international agreements and their results in the institutionalization of the category of gender in public policies and plans in the federal and local government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a theoretical framework that links gender perspective public budgets with the modernization of the public administration, taking as the starting point its parallelism with the result-oriented management and public finances. Also, it focuses in the advances in the implementation of budgets for gender in the world and it discussed its scope and limitations in the case of Mexico, based on the review of international agreements and their results in the institutionalization of the category of gender in public policies and plans in the federal and local government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bodies are transformed, they are constructed, they are reconstructed. The bodies are plastic and their plasticity, question, destabilizes and subverts gender. The bodies escape, they are in fugue from the heteronormativity speech. In this paper, two (one corporized, the other literary) fictional constructs are studied in order to demonstrate the plasticity of these bodies and their questioning of gender. Pinina Flandes and Hipólita are the players that allow us to think and rethink gender since its mobility and continuos construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the characteristics of migration process in Baja California Sur, on the Pacific Ocean coast of northwest Mexico, where immigration has impacted the local economy through the development of tourism and intensive agriculture that target foreign markets. This has encouraged an annual rate of population growth of 10% during the last decade, feeding into employment in both formal and informal sectors. Referring to the cases of women who develop beach vending activities and agricultural workers, this paper seeks to contribute to the understanding of how migration and the informal labor market intertwine [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the results of the evaluation of an instrument on gender institutional culture are analyzed using the principal components method. The structure and parameters of its validity and reliability, as well as the differences obtained by sex, are described. The sample consisted of 1,144 individuals from the educational, health, and research sectors in northwestern Mexico. The results showed four components: administrative processes, employment equity, benefits, working environment, and authoritarianism, which explain 40.90 of variance with a Cronbachs alpha of .88. With these obtained values, the instrument is considered valid and reliable to evaluate institutional culture and identify gender bias. Methodology can be replicated to adapt the instrument to other regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we try to provide a critical analysis of the symbolic representations of women and men in the mass media, from the review of various basic concepts in the context of Social Sciences. The purpose is to deepen the understanding of phenomena such as symbolic inequality/discrimination, sexism in the media, or symbolic violence against women. To this end, we gather some examples of symbolic discrimination in language and in language use, and also in the images with which media and advertising represent gender differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the contributions made by social sciences, particularly from gender and socio cultural studies regarding coronary diseases (CD), specifically for women. It is assumed that the interpretation models for these perspectives enable the integral study of the health-diseasecare process for CD, they also generate knowledge about gender inequality in health; visualizing risks beyond biological differences; to identify their self-perception and which are the experiences along the CD process, as well as decision taking regarding health. The study contributes to the search for preventive and promotion strategies for CD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with sexual behavior from a gender perspective in women from a town located at the south of Veracruz State, Mexico. I point out how the female sexual behavior is a result from that particular male society and how it imposes moral codes to women, due to their male hegemony which needs to control female sexual behavior. I analyze that sexuality is a social construction and a changing historical product, therefore sexual moral codes are present as changing elements that show in advance the social picture and the female fantasies over their moral obligations. Also, transgressions from the "ruling" perspective are explained in accordance with the idea that accepted sexuality is genderized from a moral point of view but not relevant with the actual activities of the collectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes a group of women who created the Union Nacional de Mujeres Mexicanas, its formation and historical development, by interviewing one of its founders and the book written about it. The aim of this article is to reveal the interactions between feminism and socialism. There is little information about this organization and it is mostly unknown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on 22 in-depth interviews with gays and lesbians with children, this paper describes and analyses the experiences of gays as fathers and lesbians as mothers. The section, gender repertoires, sexuality and parenthood, analyses how ideologies of maleness and femaleness function within a scheme of compulsory heterosexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses the analysis of monetary circulation as a methodological strategy that allows us to show how social worlds fit together to reinforce or to challenge certain gender assessments. In particular, our proposal aims to problemacize the boundaries that organize the family’s economic life and the political world in the popular sectors. The article is based on an ethnographic description of the life of a woman who lives in a poor neighborhood of the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, whose everyday life takes place between the obligations that shape her involvement in a local policy network, and as a person charge of the household economy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we assess the impact on socioeconomic conditions, quality of life and empowerment of women who were beneficiaries of credit programs aimed at women’s productive projects. These projects were developed between 2000 and 2003 by four federal agencies (Sedesol, CDI'INI, Fonaes y SRa) in the states of Tabasco, Campeche and Quintana Roo in Mexico. Likewise, we examine the opportunities for individual, family and community development of the women involved in these projects. We identified the operating characteristics of these programs in order to identifies deficiencies in their performance and suggest viable alternatives for a better implementation and a higher social impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the uses of money, both the money which comes from the microcredit program that is being analyzed and that which is obtained by women from the sale of various products and services. It also analyzes the ways in which resources are labeled according to the meanings attributed to them. From this perspective, the paper unravels interweaving of non-monetary and non-commercial aspects within economic relationships and processes in order to understand how production and sales practices intermingle interwoven with expectations and commitment with family and social networks, and in turn, sales and purchases transactions, loans and investments are carried out within the framework of these relationships [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses three recent trends in the business world: the presence of greater numbers of women in this activity, the formation of organizations to support their work and the construction of a new profile of women entrepreneurs. I will question about how the increase of women in business has not been reflected in a greater position of them in the direction of the traditional sector organizations. However, it detects a tendency to seek and incorporate non-governmental organizations to support their work with gender claim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]