The female body in discourse: memory and (r)existence

Abstract

The female body brings memories of violence within history built and reverberated by social practices that materialize in and by discourses. This condition made possible a certain idealism of the body, seen as a sexual object, besides placing it in a discursive space of struggle, always unequal. From certain social movements in favor of women, we can say that there is the establishment of a new memory resignified by the body that resists, which produces words that move women in the fight against certain socially stigmatized imaginary. We see, from these new conditions of production, the transition from the formerly tender and delicate body to the profane body, owner of itself, militant. Theoretically and methodologically based on the french discourse analysis, in this article our objective is to analyze this new memory that emerges from the rise of feminist social movements, such as the Marcha das Vadias and Marcha das Margaridas (in Portuguese). Our corpus consists of some clippings from feminist pages from Facebook and the media in general.