From the Field

These short pieces, written by individuals engaged in sex work-related activism and scholarship, are intended to provide a snapshot of ongoing social justice efforts regarding this highly politicized issue. In the following commentaries, Sienna Baskin documents U.S. efforts to provide legal aid to sex workers and victim-survivors of sex trafficking, Thaddeus Blanchette describes a Brazilian prostitute’s campaign for a seat in Congress, Megan Morgenson speaks to the need to incorporate sex workers’ perspectives into anti-trafficking initiatives, Sarah Jenny Bleviss documents new mobile phone technology designed to help U.S. sex workers navigate the risks they face working in a criminalized profession, and Gregory Mitchell (together with Thaddeus Blanchette) and Jayne Swift detail two events on U.S. campuses designed to promote critical thinking about sex work and trafficking

Trouble Every Day: 1968 nos Estados Unidos

O ano de 1968 foi importante para a história contemporânea americana com reverberações que continuam até hoje. Todavia, é um tema pouco visitado pela historiografia brasileira. O presente artigo analisa o ano de 1968 nos Estados Unidos a partir de uma série de eventos significantes para compreender e introduzir algumas propostas interpretativas para aquela conjuntura histórica. Os arcos temáticos incorporados para análise são: o engajamento militar na Ásia e a fragmentação dos consensos políticos, sociais e culturais nos Estados Unidos, focalizados particularmente nas questões conjuntas de raça e classe

A People’s History of the United States (de Howard Zinn)

A People’s History of the United States (de Howard Zinn

Critique of culture in the feminine

The article analyses the inflections of gender upon the Brazilian intellectual field, in its interface with literary and cultural critique, from the 1920's to the 1960's. It focuses on the trajectory of three expressive women who achieved renown as critics of culture, essayists and writers: Lúcia Miguel Pereira, Patrícia Galvão and Gilda Mello e Souza. The three belong to distinct generations and cover the political spectrum of the time: from Communism to Socialism, for Patrícia Galvão, through the intellectual circles of Catholicism, for Lúcia Miguel Pereira, or else maintaining a certain distance from these issues and establishing an academic intellectual identity, in the case of Gilda de Mello e Souza. When taken as a set and in the context of the constraints that derive from gender relations, they delineate some of the possible fields for the intellectual activity of women at the time. So as to avoid essentializing social markers that only become analytically potent when placed in relationship, the article concludes by a comparison of the intellectual and theatrical fields, in order to contrast career opportunities and the distinct ways of making a "name" for oneself that were available to intellectuals and actresses at the time

Stolen beauty: gender, aesthetics and embodiment in Brazilian drama

Drawing from a broader research on gender inflections in the Brazilian intellectual field and in Brazilian drama, between 1940 and 1968, the article discusses the relations between aesthetics and gender, and their implications on the careers of actresses Cacilda Becker, Maria Della Costa, Tônia Carrero and Cleyde Yáconis. According to testimony of those who saw her perform on stage, Cacilda was never hampered by her less favorable physical attributes. The hypothesis is that this is due to the cunning tricks of the conventions of dramatic arts that allow the dodging of social, gender and physical constraints. Widely evoked by the media to portrait, underline or diminish women under its focus, beauty rarely features as a relevant dimension in the analysis of female trajectories. Hence the interest in discussing the subject through its refraction on the process of social construction of artistic careers

On bullshit and the trafficking of women: moral entrepreneurs and the invention of trafficking of persons in Brazil

The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of increasing amounts of rumen undegradable protein (RUP) on intake, nutrient digestibility, rumen kinetics and fermentation characteristics and N use efficiency of dairy Holstein heifers. Eight rumen-cannulated Holstein heifers (initial body weight 276 ± 8.3 kg) were used in a replicate 4 × 4 Latin square design with four dietary RUP amounts in the total dietary protein, as follows: 38% of RUP (38RUP), 44% of RUP (44RUP), 51% of RUP (51RUP) and 57% of RUP (57RUP). The experimental period was 84 days, subdivided into four periods of 21 days (14 days for adaptation + 7 days for collections). Eight spot collections of faeces, urine, ruminal content and omasal digesta were performed at 9-h intervals, as follows: on 15 th day samples were collected at 0600 h and 1500 h; on 16 th day samples were collected at 0000 h, 0900 h and 1800 h; on 17 th day samples were collected at 0300 h, 1200 h and 2100 h. Two complete rumen evacuations were performed: one on 19 th day 4 h after morning feeding and another on 21 st day immediately before morning feeding. Total (kg/day) and relative (g/kg of body weight) intake of dry matter, crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fibre corrected for ash and protein were not affected (P > 0.10) by dietary RUP amounts. Ruminal (P = 0.06) and intestinal (P = 0.09) digestibilities of CP presented a tendency to decrease with increasing RUP. There were no effects of dietary RUP amounts (P > 0.10) on the rates of ingestion, passage and digestion (%/h) as well on the total volatile fatty acid concentration in the rumen. Urinary N excretion presented a tendency (P = 0.08) to decrease with increasing RUP. In addition, retained N presented a tendency (P = 0.09) to increase according to dietary RUP amounts and greater values were observed for treatments 51RUP and 57RUP. Microbial protein synthesis, microbial efficiency and the efficiency of use of N for microbial synthesis decreased with increasing RUP (P < 0.05). Metabolisable protein flow presented a tendency to increase (P = 0.091) and greater values were observed for 51RUP and 57RUP. In general, urinary N excretion decreased, while the flow of metabolisable protein and RUP increased with increasing RUP levels. As aconsequence of this pattern, the treatments 51RUP and 57RUP presented increases in the retained N