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      Sexualidade e organizações: estudo sobre lésbicas no ambiente de trabalho Translated title: Sexuality and organizations: a study of lesbians at the workplace

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          A discriminação dos homossexuais masculinos no ambiente de trabalho já foi objeto de diversos estudos; no entanto, persiste a lacuna no que tange aos seus pares femininos. Neste sentido, esta pesquisa, iluminada pela premissa da Pós-Modernidade Crítica de que existem múltiplas identidades simultâneas e sobrepostas, foi elaborada com o objetivo de averiguar como as lésbicas se percebem no mundo corporativo. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo entre julho de 2005 e julho de 2008, em empresas públicas e privadas, de diversos setores, localizadas nas regiões metropolitanas do Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. Foram entrevistadas 18 mulheres homossexuais, de idades, etnias, aspectos físicos e classes sociais diferentes. Seus relatos, bem como os registros de campo, foram transcritos e submetidos à análise do discurso. O campo revelou que: a) as lésbicas, assim como os gays, se percebem submetidas a práticas discriminatórias no ambiente de trabalho, as quais, não raramente, se escondem sob a máscara do humor e da informalidade; b) a orientação sexual não pode ser tratada como uma categoria sólida, uma vez que outras dimensões físicas e psicográficas, como estética, etnia, classe social acentuam ou atenuam a discriminação; e, finalmente, c) as lésbicas se discriminam entre si em função de outros atributos.

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          Discrimination against gays in the workplaces has been object of many studies; nevertheless, there is a gap regarding their female counterparts. This research, based upon the postmodern ontology, was designed to evaluate how lesbians perceive themselves in the corporate world. The fieldwork was carried out from July 2005 to July 2008 in public and private corporations in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. We interviewed 18 homosexual women of different ages, races, physical traits and social classes. Their reports were submitted to discourse analysis and they revealed that a) lesbians, as well as gays, perceive themselves as being discriminated against at the workplace b) sexual orientation cannot be dealt with as a solid category, hence other social, physical and psychological dimensions may stress or attenuate discrimination, and c) lesbians discriminate each other on the basis of other attributes.

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            Beyond "homophobia": a social psychological perspective on attitudes toward lesbians and gay men.

            Homophobia, a term often used to describe hostile reactions to lesbians and gay men, implies a unidimensional construct of attitudes as expressions of irrational fears. This paper argues that a more complex view is needed of the psychology of positive and negative attitudes toward homosexual persons. Based upon a review of previous empirical research, a model is proposed that distinguishes three types of attitudes according to the social psychological function they serve: (1) experiential, categorizing social reality by one's past interactions with homosexual persons; (2) defensive, coping with one's inner conflicts or anxieties by projecting them onto homosexual persons; and (3) symbolic, expressing abstract ideological concepts that are closely linked to one's notion of self and to one's social network and reference groups. Strategies are proposed for changing attitudes serving each of the functions. The importance of distinguishing attitudes toward lesbians from those focused on gay men is also discussed.
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              Métodos de pesquisa em ciências sociais

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                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Journal
                osoc
                Organizações & Sociedade
                Organ. Soc.
                Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal da Bahia (Salvador )
                1984-9230
                December 2011
                : 18
                : 59
                : 625-641
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Fundação Getúlio Vargas Brazil
                [2 ] Fundação Getúlio Vargas Brazil
                Article
                S1984-92302011000400004
                10.1590/S1984-92302011000400004
                3752bca6-204e-456f-a6fe-67f209d18498

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=1984-9230&lng=en
                Categories
                MANAGEMENT
                SOCIOLOGY

                Sociology,Management
                Work environment,Sexual orientation and workplace,Diversity,Organizacional discours,Ambiente de trabalho,Orientação sexual e ambiente de trabalho,Diversidade,Discurso organizacional

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