DOMINAÇÃO MASCULINA NA ESFERA PÚBLICA: DILMA NAS CAPAS DA ISTOÉ E NAS MANCHETES DO ESTADÃO NA CONSTRUÇÃO IMAGÉTICA DO GOLPE

Abstract

This work entitled “Male domination in the public sphere: Dilma on the covers of Istoé and on the headlines of Estadão in the imagery construction of the coup” aims to understand how it is possible to perceive male domination on the covers of the magazine “Istoé” and in the headlines of “Estadão” about former president Dilma Rousseff from January to August 2016. Based on this, a historical-political survey was carried out to discuss the context in which gender issues developed in Brazil, also addressing the under-representation of women in the political field and the growth of a conservative reaction to the advances of the left-wing. In this sense, we carried out a qualitative theoretical analysis based on the concepts of habitus, field, trajectory, symbolic power and violence presented by Pierre Bourdieu to reflect on the presence of male domination and possible gender violence in the media montage of the coup, also taking into account the feminist perspective on Bourdieu's perspective of male domination. In addition to the theoretical analysis, the content analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin was used as a methodological tool to identify the presence of male domination in IstoÉ and Estadão. Thus, it was possible to verify that the objects of study analyzed pointed to the use of moral degradation against Dilma through pejorative statements of her image. Soon, we realize how male domination contributed to Dilma's demoralization and resulted in a wide spread of Bolsonarism, which clearly expresses the characteristics of this domination.