Female sexuality and western religiosity

An analysis of the tales “Pai Nosso” and “Redenção”, by Henriette Effenberger

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2021.2.40082

Keywords:

Female sexuality, Western religiosity, Tales, Literature authored by women, Henriette Effenberger

Abstract

In this work, we use some theories that are approached in the texts Mulheres pobres e violência no Brasil urbano (2004), by Rachel Soihet, A dominação masculina (2003), by Pierre Bourdieu, and O segundo sexo (1970), by Simone de Beauvoir, for the purpose of understand the relationship between sexual freedom and repression of female sexuality – a duality that appears in the short stories “Pai Nosso” and “Redenção”, by brazilian writer Henriette Effenberger. With this, we intend to reflect about the prohibitions imposed by the Christian religions on the woman’s sexual pleasure, based on the literary representation of such restriction.

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Author Biography

Sebastião Bonifácio Júnior, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina, PR, Brasil.

Mestre em Letras pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), em Londrina, PR, Brasil; doutorando em Letras pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), em Londrina, PR, Brasil.

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Published

2021-11-09

How to Cite

Júnior, S. B. (2021). Female sexuality and western religiosity: An analysis of the tales “Pai Nosso” and “Redenção”, by Henriette Effenberger. Letras De Hoje, 56(2), 340–356. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2021.2.40082

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Vol. 56 No. 2 (2021)

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O Conto Brasileiro Contemporâneo de Autoria Feminina

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