O discurso, o imaginário e a identidade da mulher no semanário O Sexo Feminino (1873)

Abstract

This dissertation presents a discursive analysis of the discourses given in the weekly O Sexo Feminino (1873), addressing the impact on the construction of women's identity and imaginary in nineteenth-century society. The speeches written in the nineteenth-century women's presses caused a break with the traditional patterns of the time, characterizing themselves as a historical event and a discursive event. The weekly O Sexo Feminino was written by women, and, in its editions, the writers defended education and the formation of female identity with ideological assumptions contrary to patriarchy. The discourse is made with and for subjects, in this case, the main discourses are produced by the creator Francisca Senhorinha Diniz representing the weekly. In this context, new ideologies became materialized in the discourses of the women's press, revealing transformations and historical events about women. In the editions, women had the intention of educating young people and adults about politics, education, marriage, professions, home, among other areas, in search of liberation from the conservative mold. This work is based on the Discourse Analysis of the French strand, specifically Pêcheux, in order to understand the influence of Francisca Senhorinha Diniz's discourse. in the construction of women's representations, as well as the meanings of marriage and the struggle for rights, in the first five editions of the weekly O Sexo Feminino in 1873. The methodological procedure used for this research was qualitative. To carry out the analysis of the corpus, the project is based on the concepts of Discourse Analysis worked on in Gadet and Hak (1993), Orlandi (2002), Gregolin (2007), Indursky (2007), Tfouni and Tfouni (2014) and Tfouni and Grigoletto (2020). Regarding the history of women in society, the study is based on considerations by Beauvoir (1949) and Federici (2017, 2018). The results indicate that the discourses of the women's press have a great influence, considering that it is through discourse that identities and social formations are formed, adapted or reconstructed.