Freude Leon

Universitat de Barcelona, Sociologia, Personal investigador en formació

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Reproductive Homonationalism and In/ter/dependence in Spain and Catalonia: "Feminazis" and Queer and Trans Reproduction

Journal of International Women's Studies, 2024

Spain and Catalonia are timely and crucial examples for analyzing homonationalism and queer and t... more Spain and Catalonia are timely and crucial examples for analyzing homonationalism and queer and trans reproduction with Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). This essay employs Puar's (2013) formulation of "homonationalism" as an ideology that privileges LGBTIQ people while simultaneously discriminating against other types of people. The Catalan independence process provides us with important insights into the relationship and interdependence between queer and trans reproduction and the state or nation. Queer and trans people's reproduction is dependent on the laws of the state, the state depends on the reproduction of its population, and most Western EU-states want to appear as LGBTIQ-friendly. A selection of eight in-depth interviews will be analyzed with the following questions in mind: Are there any differences between Spain and Catalonia concerning access to queer and trans reproduction? Do comments regarding queer and trans reproduction employ racializing or homonationalist ideologies? Is queer and trans reproduction an issue in the Catalan independence process? How do queer and trans people based in Catalonia navigate their reproductive challenges in relation to Spain and Catalonia? These interviews formed part of an EU-funded project on queer and trans reproduction in Europe. In this article, we highlight both the struggles for queer and trans reproduction as well as the complicity of some queer and trans people's reproduction with homonationalist strategies, and whether and how Spain and Catalonia deploy these homonationalist tools.

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Capítulo 5. Midiendo homonacionalismo a través de la metodología feminista interseccional y cuantitativa

Feminista: migraciones, derechos humanos e interseccionalidad, organizadas por Hegoa y el SIMReF ... more

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INNOVACIÓ DOCENT FENT APRENENTATGE DE SERVEI EN PERSPECTIVA FEMINISTA. UNA EXPERIÈNCIA DES DE L’ASSIGNATURA SOCIOLOGIA DELS GÈNERES SOBRE EL TEMA DE GÈNERES I TECNOLOGIES

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INNOVACIÓN DOCENTE REALIZANDO APRENDIZAJESERVICIO EN PERSPECTIVA FEMINISTA. UNA EXPERIENCIA DESDE LA ASIGNATURA SOCIOLOGÍA DE LOS GÉNEROS SOBRE EL TEMA DE GÉNEROS Y TECNOLOGÍAS

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Ressenya Jean-Gabirel Périot (2021): Retour à Reims (Fragments). Les Films de Pierre

Anuario del Conflicto Social, 2021

Jean-Gabriel Périot (guió i direcció), Les Films de Pierre / Marie-Ange Luciani (producció). (202... more

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Dones al sector ocupacional de les tecnologies: Condicions, clima i trajectòries laborals

El mon laboral de les tecnologies de la informacio i comunicacio (TIC) encara mostra deficiencies... more El mon laboral de les tecnologies de la informacio i comunicacio (TIC) encara mostra deficiencies importants a l’hora d’atraure, retenir i promoure a les dones. Tot i que segueix sent necessari indagar en les barreres i exclusions de les dones que treballen al sector TIC, cal anar mes enlla i explorar les oportunitats i factors que faciliten el seu acces i la seva progressio en aquest sector. Per aixo busquem, per una banda, explorar la situacio laboral de les dones en les TIC, per altra, identificar les barreres principals, pero sobretot, les seves oportunitats d’acces, retencio i promocio. Per fer-ho hem analitzat dades secundaries, tant a nivell espanyol com a nivell catala, explorant, especialment, estadistiquesd’educacio, qualitat de vida i laborals. Tanmateix, el nucli de la recerca ha estat l’analisi d’una enquesta propia on-line que han contestat 325 dones que treballen al sector TIC i que resideixen a Catalunya. Aquesta enquesta conte tant variables sociodemografiques per a...

Exploring Innovative Ways to Counteract Social Inequalities

Aprenentatge de Servei en clau de Gènere. Una experiència per fomentar vocacions tecnològiques entre les noies

Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació (CIDUI), Oct 1, 2021

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Aprendizaje Servicio, Género y TIC. De la desigualdad de género en las TIC a la generación de vocaciones tecnológicas en el ámbito educativo

Foro de Educación

Pese a los esfuerzos de las últimas décadas, las desigualdades de género en el acceso a los estud... more Pese a los esfuerzos de las últimas décadas, las desigualdades de género en el acceso a los estudios y trabajos TIC persisten. Aunque la exclusión de las mujeres de las TIC responde a múltiples causas, la investigación coincide en la necesidad de despertar el interés y generar más vocaciones tecnológicas entre las chicas desde edades escolares y, con ello, incrementar el número de estudiantes y trabajadoras TIC en el futuro. Para dar respuesta a esta necesidad diseñamos e implementamos un proyecto de Aprendizaje Servicio (ApS) en el ámbito de la Sociología del Género en Barcelona. El proyecto consistía en llevar a cabo conferencias-taller en torno al género y la tecnología para las escuelas y trabajar cuestiones de desigualdad de género, socialización de género y visibilización de las mujeres en las TIC, así como, vías para acceder a ellas. En este artículo nos proponemos exponer la experiencia de 4 cursos consecutivos y sus principales resultados. Para su descripción y evaluación ...

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Service Learning with a Gender Perspective: Reconnecting Service Learning with Feminist Research and Pedagogy in Sociology

Teaching Sociology, 2021

Service learning (SL) is growing in our universities and in Spain. However, still much action and... more Service learning (SL) is growing in our universities and in Spain. However, still much action and research are needed with a gender perspective. This article aims to evaluate an SL project that consisted of workshops in schools on gender and technology. We evaluated the experience with a mixed-methods approach and a gender perspective. This includes qualitative self-reports of 19 university students of sociology of gender as well as quantitative surveys completed by the 284 school students and 13 of their teachers. Our results indicate a great satisfaction among university students as well as the schools. This SL experience helped our university students to acquire specific knowledge regarding gender and social issues as well as several skills, especially communication, organization, empathy, critical thinking, and social and gender awareness and responsibility. Therefore, we conclude that such experiences show a great potential for learning as well as for social and gender transfor...

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La articulación del racismo y la homofobia en los valores de la población europea

Quaderns de Psicologia

Racismo y homofobia representan dos grandes desafíos para las sociedades contemporáneas. El síndr... more Racismo y homofobia representan dos grandes desafíos para las sociedades contemporáneas. El síndrome de enemistad grupal (SEG) y el homonacionalismo representan dos conceptos, aparentemente opuestos, para la comprensión de la relación entre racismo y homofobia. En este artículo analizamos esta relación en los valores de la población de Austria, Francia, España y Holanda, a partir de los datos de la European Values Study 2017. Empleamos el método de la tipología estructural y articulada, con análisis de correspondencias y un análisis de clasificación. Nuestros resultados confirman parcialmente la adecuación, tanto del SEG como del homonacionalismo, para explicar la relación entre el racismo y la homofobia. Por un lado, el racismo resultó más elevado que la homofobia en todos los grupos. Por el otro, obtuvimos un grupo moderadamente racista y poco homófobo, otro racista y homófobo y sólo en un grupo muy minoritario se visualizaron tendencias hacia una sociedad genuinamente inclusiva.

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Evaluando desigualdades de género enseñando técnicas cuantitativas en sociología en tiempos de pandemia , , Màrius Domínguez

Conference proceedings CIVINEDU 2020: 4th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation September 23-24, 2020, 2020, ISBN 978-84-09-22966-6, págs. 255-256, 2020

Aquí se analiza el aprendizaje de competencias y la satisfacción del alumnado en el contexto de u... more Aquí se analiza el aprendizaje de competencias y la satisfacción del alumnado en el contexto de una asignatura de técnicas multivariante en el tercer año del grado Sociología. La actividad evaluada aquí recoge propuestas para facilitar el aprendizaje en las asignaturas de técnicas cuantitativas como actividades prácticas, trabajo en equipo, la reorientación de la figura docente como mentor en el proceso de aprendizaje y ofrecer un amplio abanico de temáticas substantivas para apelar a un alumnado con intereses heterogéneos (Adriansen et al., 2015; Verge, 2016; Slootmaeckers et al., 2014). Reconociendo el peso que puede tener ansiedad de mates o estadística y su desproporcional efecto sobre mujeres (Verge, 2016; Slootmaeckers et al., 2014; Van Gundy, 2007; DeCesare, 2006) incorporamos las aportaciones de la pedagogía feminista y del gender mainstreaming (Martin, 2016; Verge, 2016) introduciendo explícitamente contenido de género y sexualidad – a menudo ausente en la docencia de técnicas cuantitativas (Verge, 2016). Accidentalmente y debido a la situación sanitaria catalana nos vimos forzado a realizar la segunda de las dos actividades en línea: comprobamos como esta virtualidad en la docencia afecta al aprendizaje, también en clave de género. El objetivo de esta ponencia es evaluar el aprendizaje de competencias en una clase práctica de técnicas de investigación social (análisis multivariante) teniendo en cuenta el impacto del género y el del accidental paso de la presencialidad a virtualidad en el contexto del COVID.

Raising Awareness and Combatting Digital Gender Based Violence Through Service-Learning

INTED2022 Proceedings, 2022

Digital Gender Based Violence (DGBV) is a growing social problem and affects especially younger p... more Digital Gender Based Violence (DGBV) is a growing social problem and affects especially younger people. DGBV describes any kind of Gender Based Violence (GBV) related with new Information and Communication Technologies. To combat DGBV we designed the teaching innovation project &quot;Digital gender-based violence: learning from feminisms&quot; aiming to contribute to the eradication of digital sexist violence in order to promote healthy digital relationships. The project is part of the broader Service Learning project of the University of Barcelona &quot;Sharing Ideas-University goes to High school&quot;: In the classes at University, students will learn the curriculum specific content, to develop a workshop to be implemented in short sessions with high school students. In order to assess these research questions, we consider observation of the sessions, students&#39; reflections (qualitative) as well as a quantitative questionnaire.

Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences

Current Sociology, 2022

To problematise Western discourses of a homophobic Africa, there is a need to analyse evidence of... more To problematise Western discourses of a homophobic Africa, there is a need to analyse evidence of homophobia and its interplay with other attitudes, in ways that explore contextual differences. Hence, this article offers an original sociological analysis of quantitative data on homophobia in African states, examining how this inter-relates with xenophobia. Social attitudes data are drawn from the Afrobarometer research project as a unique and important source, and compared in five diverse contexts: Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Zambia. Data are examined from Round 6 (2014–2015) and Round 7 (2016–2018). Findings are interpreted in light of specific national literatures on the relations between sexuality, gender and nationalism, as well as wider critical and postcolonial perspectives – especially conceptualisation of sexual nationalisms, and recent literatures on political homophobia. Whereas analyses of homonationalism in Western societies have explored alignments of lesbia...

Inclusiones desiguales en Latinoamérica y Europa: homofobia y racismo bajo el prisma del homonacionalismo

Revista Española de Sociología, 2021

El término homonacionalismo ofrece una nueva aproximación a la relación entre racismo y toleranci... more El término homonacionalismo ofrece una nueva aproximación a la relación entre racismo y tolerancia con gais y lesbianas en sociedades contemporáneas. Este trabajo presenta un estudio comparativo sobre la extensión y evolución de valores homonacionalistas en Argentina, España, Países Bajos y Uruguay entre 1989-1993 y 2010-2014 siendo uno de los pocos trabajos cuantitativos en los estudios sobre homonacionalismo. Mediante el análisis de las oleadas de la World Value Survey para los distintos países, se operativiza el concepto para evidenciar la irrupción de los valores homonacionalistas en Europa a partir de 2001; así como su extensión a otras regiones propicias para la construcción de un excepcionalismo sexual. Los resultados si bien constatan su fuerte presencia en los discursos contradicen la hegemonía homonacionalista en los valores de las sociedades.

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Sociology of Gender Meets Pharmacy, University Meets High School: Interdisciplinarity Through Service Learning

ICERI2019 Proceedings, 2019

We present an interdisciplinary experience of Service Learning, which has been part of the broade... more We present an interdisciplinary experience of Service Learning, which has been part of the broader project Sharing ideas: the university goes to high school. In this project, university students divulgate, dialogue and contrast knowledge acquired at their university class through the organization of workshops at high schools. In our case, we invited sociology students from the course Sociology of Genders and medicine students doing a Pharmacy course to design an intervention on drug consumption. Our general objective was to innovate university teaching and bring it closer to realworld issues. In concrete we aimed to improve the understanding of course specific content as well as general and specific competences. Concerning competences, we aimed to improve group work, interdisciplinarity, communication and divulgation as well as critical reasoning through contrast of content and dialogue. Concerning content, we wanted our students to learn about gender perspective, gender and drugs, medical and sociological points of view and data analysis. In addition, we wanted to take into account the needs of the community fostering social transformation and agency. Our students defined themselves the objective to empower the secondary education pupils on autonomous and critical decision-making concerning their drug use. Methodologically we based our project on Service Learning, enriching it with the notions of feminist methodologies and public sociology. In order to control both, the community impact, as well as the satisfaction and consolidation of knowledge and competences of our students we opted for a mixed method approach: Our students responded a questionnaire and wrote a final reflection; the secondary students and their teachers responded a mainly quantitative questionnaire. The results indicate that the participating secondary students and their teachers strongly appreciated the intervention of our students. Our students underline that Service Learning gives them the possibility to concentrate on one topic and contrast it permanently. They consider that the contents are interiorized better, than in a theoretic exam. However, they also indicate that Service Learning implied much more work and admit that the interdisciplinary part has been very difficult. We can conclude that an interdisciplinary intervention on drugs in the mark of Service Learning is a very promising way to innovate teaching in Gender Sociology and Pharmacy. Teachers should foresee difficulties concerning the inequal effort; difficulties concerning interdisciplinarity need to be worked on, enhancing interdisciplinarity.

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Women working in ICT: situation and possibilities of progress in Catalonia and Spain

Gender, Technology and Development, 2021

Abstract The ICT sector is becoming a strategic and growing sector in our current societies and e... more Abstract The ICT sector is becoming a strategic and growing sector in our current societies and economies. However, gender inequalities persist and women’s representation in ICT is still low in Catalonia and Spain. In this article, we introduce the situation of women working in ICT and seek to identify the main barriers and opportunities for their progress. We implemented a survey that was answered by 325 women working in ICT in Catalonia. Our results show that women in ICT do not always access ICT jobs from an engineering degree, are satisfied with their jobs and enjoy better salaries than in other sectors, and that some flexi-time measures and other working conditions may play in their favor. This needs to be highlighted in order to encourage many more women to work in ICT. However, our results also suggest that too many women still suffer gender-based discrimination, work-life balance conflicts, and serious difficulties in being promoted. This also needs to be addressed if we are to improve the numbers of women in ICT.

Service-Learning to Reflect on Gender in Universities and Schools and Boost Women’s Presence in Ict

ICERI2019 Proceedings, Nov 1, 2019

Service-Learning (APS), as a teaching methodology, is being increasingly implemented in our unive... more Service-Learning (APS), as a teaching methodology, is being increasingly implemented in our universities. However, there has been little research into its potential for a sociology committed to gender transformation and feminisms. In our courses on Sociology of Gender, we introduce our students to the main gender topics, as well as to feminist methodologies. Within these, gender and ICT, as well as feminist research and pedagogy, are covered. In this communication, we present an experience of Service-Learning around sociology and gender carried out in three consecutive courses. This experience was developed in the framework of the transversal project on Service-Learning at the University of Barcelona called Sharing ideas: the university goes to high school. Sharing Ideas is a Service-Learning project in which undergraduate and master's degree students from the University of Barcelona (UB) prepare lecture-workshops on interesting topics related to their studies and teach these in high schools which the university visits. Specifically, our experience consisted of teaching and accompanying our university students who study sociology of gender to carry out a lectureworkshop on gender and technology at secondary/high schools. Moreover, as an innovative element, we related our teaching to one of our research projects that aimed at improving the incorporation, retention and promotion of women in ICT. In the classrooms we then sought to work and reflect on gender socialization, the labour market with a gender perspective and, finally, to question the digital gender gap and to contribute to generating new technological vocations among girls. We based the evaluation of the project on a mixed-methods approach and a gender perspective. On the one hand, we took into account the evaluation surveys completed by the students; on the other hand, we analyzed qualitative data obtained through the observations and summaries of the experiences of the participating university students. Finally, from the design stage through to the evaluation of data we applied a gender perspective. This involved, on the one hand, considering the feminist research and agenda regarding gender and technology, as well as pedagogy and sociology. On the other hand, our experience specifically introduced gender contents and reflection in the APS project. Finally, this implied analysing our results and outcomes by considering gender, in relation to the contents as well as to the ascribed gender of our students and teachers. This allowed us to evaluate both the impact on the community as well as the impact on our students' learning process in a gender perspective. Apart from some limitations, the experience has been very satisfactory, both for the teachers and for the participating students of all levels and, in relation to gender as well, shows great potential for learning and transformation.

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Homonationalism in Europe? A Quantitative Comparison of the Values of Europeans

Sexuality & Culture, 2019

In the context of growing interest in sexual dissidence, academic and social movements are discus... more In the context of growing interest in sexual dissidence, academic and social movements are discussing homonationalism as the combination of tolerance towards lesbians and gays, racism and nationalism in a neoliberal globalised world. In this article we aim to quantitatively compare European nation states on homonationalist values using data collected through the European Value Study (2008-2010), through correlations and cross tabulation analysis. We ask to what extent homonationalism is reflected in the values of Europeans and if there is any difference among European countries. The results indicate that homonationalism is not reflected in the values of all Europeans. Those who are more tolerant to homosexuality tend to be less racist and nationalist. However, our results confirm the existence of groups of people in western European countries who combine tolerance to LGB people, racism and nationalism and consequently must be qualified as homonationalists.

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Teaching Quantitative Techniques in Times of Corona. Evaluation of an Innovative Teaching Project Taking Into Account Gender and Abrupt Virtuality

ICERI Proceedings, 2020

Quantitative research techniques are an important part of any Undergraduate program of sociology ... more Quantitative research techniques are an important part of any Undergraduate program of sociology and other social sciences. Previous research shows that there is a need to innovate in order to improve the students' fluidity with quantitative techniques. Also, research indicates a gender gap in this field. Empower students in the usage of quantitative techniques is important, also considering its growing importance in terms of employability. In conclusion can be said, that the activity itself was unable to dissolve the gender gap in quantitative research technique courses in Sociology, but that offering gender sensible topics is appreciated by female students. Also, we have seen that virtuality has helped to improve women's self-perceived competences.

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