Discursos de representação da mulher no jornal O Progresso da década de 1950

Abstract

The research investigates how O Progresso (Dourados-MS) portrayed women in the 1950s, a period marked by patriarchal discourses that limited women. To achieve this goal, the corpus is constructed from the selection, categorization, and discursive analysis of texts about women, published between 1951 and 1960 by this newspaper and available in the database of the Regional Dissemination Center (CDR), linked to the Federal University of Grande Dourados, responsible for digitizing this Dourados newspaper. The central question of this research is: "how did the O Progresso newspaper present, in the 1950s, women and in what ways, throughout this period, did patriarchal discourses make themselves, directly or indirectly, present in its pages?". To answer the central question of this work, three methodological axes are chosen: a) selection of newspaper articles; b) semantic organization of the data collected; c) discursive analysis of the statements. This will be an explanatory type of research, which resorts to bibliographic research and a qualitative approach for the treatment of the research corpus, with key theoretical proponents being Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and bell hooks, as well as authors who have a close epistemic relationship with them. It is expected that the results of this research will contribute to a better understanding of how past feminine identities were constructed and to what extent they reflect in the present.