FEMICIDES IN THE MEDIA AND THE DEHUMANIZATION OF WOMEN

• Autor(a) principal: Thurler, Ana Liési
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Observatório
• Texto Completo: https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/observatorio/article/view/4249
• topic: Feminicide; femigenocide; gender inequalities; sexist media; pedagogies; Feminicide; femigenocide; gender inequalities; sexist media; pedagogies; Feminicidio; femigenocidio; desigualdad de género; medios sexistas; espectacularidad; pedagogías; Feminicidio; femigenocidio; Desigualdad de género; medios sexistas; espectacularidad; pedagogías; Feminicídio; femigenocídio; desigualdades de gênero; mídia sexista; espetacularização; pedagogias; Feminicídio; femigenocídio; desigualdades de gênero; mídia sexista; espetacularização; pedagogias

This article examines the ways  mass media deal with extreme gender violence against women: feminicide. If one who commits a feminicide reiterates  gender issues when he practices this crime, the analysis of an array of material gathered in the media about feminicides taken place in Brazil – especially, in Brasília (DF), in 2015 and 2016,- also points to the practice of a pedagogy of cruelty, by way of which the media teaches society not to feel empathy for the victim (SEGATO, 2016). The material is predominantly discontinuous and punctual, provoking a feeling that feminicides are isolated facts. Getting closer to the subject, we were able to verify that in Brazilian society there is a phenomenon called femigenocide, due to the magnitude of the problem and the intensification of the perversities (THURLER, 2017). The discourse within media needs to adopt gender perspectives and register the processes experienced by women towards a greater protagonism.