The control of female body on the TV program Encontro com Fátima Bernardes: subjectivity, text and context

2017-09-04

In this article, researchers Jussara Maia (URFB), Igor Sacramento (UFRJ) and Valéria Vilas Bôas (UFBA) analyze how TV Globo’s "Encontro com Fátima Bernardes" builds subject positions for the feminine attached to a dominant femininity representation, establishing resonances and tensions with values that are both contested and realized in contemporary society. The researchers observe the production strategies used to emphasize characteristics of a dominant model of female subjectivity in the process of defining the format. They also demonstrate how the way of regarding the feminine on the program reverberates a dominant cultural disposition in relation to the place of women, configured through the patriarchal discourse. Read full article in the link below. 

https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/27064/15702