Current evidence suggests that attitude towards older people may be associated with sociodemographic and educational variables; hence, a positive attitude towards older people is key when training new university professionals. However, there is little evidence of this association in Chilean university students. The objective was to analyze students from a Chilean university’s attitudes towards older people, according to sociodemographic and educational variables. Analytical and cross-sectional study; 515 students from a Chilean university were consulted online about their attitude towards older people using Kogan’s Attitudes towards Old People scale. Additionally, sociodemographic and educational variables were recorded. The average score for positive attitude was 70.8 (±9.7), while the negative attitude score was 68.3 (±11.6). The total score was 139.1 (±16.6). Mostly, university students perceive themselves with a low-level positive attitude (61.2%). Additionally, older university students (26–42 years old); women; Chileans; students of law, speech therapy, and occupational therapy; students in their final years of the programs; and those who had training in older people outside the university have a more positive attitude towards older people. In Conclusion, a profile of sociodemographic and educational characteristics of students with a lower and higher attitude towards older age was investigated. These results are relevant since the way of seeing the aging process could regulate the training of future professionals and consequently generate changes in dealing with older people. Young people’s perception of ageing would affect the treatment and incorporation of the older people in society and the adaptation of policies in this age group.

Los estudios sobre las representaciones femeninas en la literatura medieval suelen basarse en dos estereotipos: las mujeres que cumplen con el rol modélico y aquellas que encarnan diversos vicios, dando cuenta de la corriente misógina de la época. La presente investigación, centrada en el ámbito hispanohebreo, busca analizar las suplantaciones ideadas y realizadas por mujeres en dos textos narrativos del siglo XIII, discutiendo cómo se configuran los personajes femeninos, si acaso estos engaños refuerzan mecanismos misóginos y la forma en que se construyen otros estereotipos en torno a las mujeres, específicamente, el de las mujeres feas, velludas y bestiales

La literatura medieval presenta un sinnúmero de personajes masculinos que responden a constructos del tipo heroico, caballeresco o cortesano, solo por nombrar algunos. Sin embargo, también existen otras masculinidades, como ocurre en el Libro de los entretenimientos de Yosef ben Me’ir ibn Zabarrah y en Meraugis de Portlesguez de Raoul de Houdenc, en donde hallamos varones que se disfrazan de mujer. Cabe preguntarse entonces si el travestismo en estos textos resulta o no subversivo, y si existe algún cuestionamiento al canon de belleza y masculinidad establecido para la época. El presente trabajo busca visibilizar este tipo de personajes, a la vez que se establece un diálogo entre el ámbito hispanohebreo y romance.