Discursive Machismo: Ways of Interdicting the Voice of Women in Brazilian Parliament

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n253771

Abstract

The article analyzes the forms of discursive machismo that interfere in the modes of expression
of the federal deputies in the committees and in the Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies. This is anexploratory analysis of a qualitative nature, based on the results of a focus group with advisors of the deputies and a set of 45 interviews, 19 with deputies and 26 with the advisory and monitoring teams of the parliamentary debates. Fifteen forms of discursive machismo were pointed out, some being more violent and others milder and subtle.

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Antonio Teixeira de Barros, Centro de Formação da Câmara dos Deputados

Doutor em Ciências Sociais. Docente e pesquisador do Programa de Mestrado em Ciência Política do Centro de Formação da Câmara dos Deputados

Elisabete Busanello, Programa de Pós-Graduação do Centro de Formação da Câmara dos Deputados

Mestra em Ciência Política pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação do Centro de Formação da Câmara dos Deputados

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Published

2019-09-09

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Barros, A. T. de, & Busanello, E. (2019). Discursive Machismo: Ways of Interdicting the Voice of Women in Brazilian Parliament. Revista Estudos Feministas, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n253771

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2019)

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