Narrativas de amor e luta : a constituição da oficialidade da monogamia e a luta contra a subjugação das mulheres
Resumo
In this dissertation it proposes to understand how is discursively constituted the
relationship between monogamy and the subjugation of women. For that, it bases the
theoretical assumptions developed by the Bakhtin Circle, guiding me in a dialogical
perspective of language. In addition, over the analysis it establishes a link between the
feminist theories of Simone de Beauvoir (1949/2015), Heleieth Saffioti (1996/2015),
Ivone Reimer (2005), among others. Firstly, it analyzes how the official status of
monogamy is constituted in the discourses of social institutions, here defined as the
Church, the State and the media. In order to think the Christian religious discourse, it
analyzes passages from the Holy Bible and the leaders' statements from the Catholic,
Evangelical and Pentecostal denominations about marriage and the affective-sexual
relationships. Regarding the State, it discusses through the Federal Constitution and two
Law Projects how family and marriage are defined. Posteriorly, through discussion of
some media products, especially the films Snow White (1938) and Fifty Shades of Grey
(2015), it discusses how the media constitute monogamy as the official discourse. In the
second chapter, it discusses historical data provided by the work História do amor no
Brazil (2005/1015), by Mary Del Priore, and documents produced by the feminist
movement of the second wave, to understand how the discursive changes in the official
models of affective-sexual relationships changes the women's lives. In the third and last
chapter, it discusses how is constituted the relationship among affective-sexual
relationships models and the domination of women using three texts of self-described
feminist blogs. After discussing the texts, it concludes that monogamy is constituted as a
way of subjugating women because it has incorporated male domination into the core
of it's official discourse. Therefore, the relationship between the discursive constitution
of the official status of affective-sexual relationship models and female subjugation is
related to the discourse of male domination, not the monogamy itself.