Banca de DEFESA: AMANDA TAVARES DE MELO DINIZ

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STUDENT : AMANDA TAVARES DE MELO DINIZ
DATE: 12/05/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência Via Google Meet
TITLE:

Violence, feminine noun: a genealogical study on narratives of violence against women in the media of Pernambuco

KEY WORDS:

Violence. Gender. Women. Discourse Analysis. Media.

PAGES: 293
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This work aims to understand how violence against women is discussed in the journalistic coverage of Diario de Pernambuco during the periods of 1969-1971 and 2014- 2016. The investigation undertakes an articulation between two theoretical- methodological bases: genealogy, as worked by Nietzsche (2009) and Foucault
(2018a, 2018b, 2018c), and French discourse analysis, in the terms developed by Pêcheux (1998, 2014) and Orlandi (1999, 2021). During the analyzed period, 1780 journalistic texts published by Diario de Pernambuco were cataloged, which were divided into two blocks: the 1970 block, which includes the years 1969-1971, and the 2015 block, from 2014 to 2016. The selection of the historical markers of the research is based on the perception that these are two periods of discursive accentuation of issues related to women's rights and gender violence in Brazil: the transition from the 1960s to the 1970s, in which gender and sexuality conventions underwent significant transformations, and the second half of the 2015s, when the popularization of law 11.340/2006, the Maria da Penha Law, and the promulgation of law 13.104/2015, the Feminicide Law, defined new ways of talking about the subject. The data found were presented in two parts. The first one discusses the more general and structural aspects of the phenomenon, bringing information such as the number of occurrences found in each period, the most frequently cited terms in the texts, and the main trends verified in the material studied. Based on the observation of this data, the analysis moves to the second part, which delimits and problematizes the main thematic axes around which the journalistic discourse of violence against women most frequently orbits: the objectification of women, permeated by feelings of possession and control over the female body, the moralization of coverage (and the behavior of those involved in the  pisodes), and the hybridization between the journalistic and the police/legal discourse. As a result of the investigation, it was perceived that although the fight for women's rights and against violence directed at them has made significant progress in the last fifty years, the main discursive lines of force identified in the 1960s still appear quite present in the media discourse of the 2015s and continue to influence the ways in which the problem is thought about, spoken about, and acted upon. In this context, violence against women does not cease to exist or "evolve" over time, as common sense suggests. What happens is a refinement of this violence, a process of subtlety that inscribes cruelty, the war against the feminine, in everyday life, institutions, and  discourses, particularly in the discourse of the media. Thus, even though journalistic coverage has progressively begun to discuss the phenomenon of violence under more critical lenses, this does not mean that the journalistic discourse has ceased to be violent, nor to reinforce, even subliminally, violence, stigmas, and processes of subjection. 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 3227594 - CRISTINA TEIXEIRA VIEIRA DE MELO
Externo ao Programa - 2621424 - DIEGO ANDRES SALCEDO - nullInterna - 1241843 - FERNANDA CAPIBARIBE LEITE
Presidente - 1130893 - ISALTINA MARIA DE AZEVEDO MELLO GOMES
Externo à Instituição - KLEBER SANTOS DE MENDONCA - UFF