1Specialist Member of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. Title of specialist in cardiovascular surgery by the Brazilian Medical Association. Specialist Member of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. Title of specialist in cardiology by the Brazilian Medical Association. Qualified member of the Department of Cardiac Pacing (DECA).Cardiovascular Surgeon of Real e Benemérita Associaç...

This article explores individual resistance related to a military organization’s gender equality work as expressed in online contexts. Resistance is explained expressions of wider social conflicts, grounded experiences threats towards masculinities, challenged by societal and political transformation processes perceived feminine. The data consists defence-related blogs comments. A thematic anal...

Confronted with the centrality of body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back political sociological agendas, propose practice is a concept suited account production trans-masculinities. Although multiple, journeys demons...

By the mid 1980s, prime time television contained frequent portrayals of females in traditionally male occupations such as lawyer, police officer, and private detective. To determine whether young people's gender schemas about such occupations have been affected by these portrayals, fifth and sixth grade students were questioned about stereotypically feminine and masculine occupations they enco...

OBJECTIVES To assess the associations between gender roles and depression in older men and women and whether gender roles are independent risk factors for depression. METHODS International cross-sectional study of adults between 65 and 74 years old (n = 1,967). Depression was defined by a score of 16 or over in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). A validated 12-item...

background: gender role attitudes toward sexual matters may define suitable and appropriate roles for men and women during a sexual relationship. this study aimed to explore and assess gender-based sexual roles in iranian families. materials and methods: this was an exploratory mixed methods study in which perceptions and experiences of 21 adult iranian participants about gender-based sexual ro...

The authors studied retrospectively 78 reports of "near-death experiences using subjects narratives and questionnaires, interviews, and medical records. Prior experiences suggestive of transcendence of death were more common among these subjects than among control populations, but prior experiences suggestive of extrasensory phenomena were less common. Subsequent changes in attitudes were more ...