Esculpindo Corpos e formando hábitos : uma abordagem histórico - educacional sobre as construções de gênero na imprensa paraibana (1913-1932)

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to understand how Genders were constructed in Paraíba, through printed discourses in the newspaper "A União", The Union, the state official organ, between the years 1913, date of publication of the conference "Woman's rights", given by educator Catharina Moura, and 1932, the year the decree 21.076 was signed by president Getúlio Vargas, who made possible the establishment of universal suffrage. There fore, the notion of "Cultural Education" is taken as a conceptual tool, since the educational field extends beyond the institutional practices. There fore, starting from the assumption that education is a social practice that is structured from what is conveyed by culture, the press is understood as one of the multiple educational institutions that contribute to the modelation of subjects and the construction of subjectivities. The gender category is recorrent in its relational sense that is considering the different powers that support the constructions of femininity and masculinity, striving to adopt a non-polarized perspective that breaks with the manichean vision of blaming men and victimization of women. Finally, the dialogue is undertaken with Michel Foucault and Michel de Certeau, concerning the disparate, heterogeneous and microinfinitesimais forms of power and discursive production present in the journal, as well as the different contours in which the resistance is manifested. Investigation is done in order to understand how certain discourses are crystallized from ordinary news and how certain truths are subjectified from everyday advertisements. However, asserting the gaps and the interstices, it is understood that, there are spaces for uprisings in political practices in our daily life.