Ser mulher: o sujeito do desejo na fronteira entre o sagrado e o profano

Abstract

This thesis presents research on the discursive gender representation of nuns and prostitutes . The study, which placed in the dialogue of French Discourse Analysis (DA) and Women's Studies, problematizes the essentializing notion of female identity in the space of the sacred and the profane and approach about the view of subjectivity. The intention was, about the assumptions of AD, identify knowledge and demands that are nuns and face prostitutes the processes of interpellation-identification in a historical moment in which social conditions intent the subjective condition. To conduct the survey, consisted of a file statements with the answers given by the women of the two groups to the question "What is a woman?". File, were cut SDRs (discursive reference sequences), which were analyzed about the category of subject position . With the analysis of SDRs, it was found that nuns and prostitutes identify with the prevailing ideology but also to identify against occupying positions subject heterogeneous and divergent. From these subject-positions, it was possible not only to discuss gender relations experienced by the nuns and prostitutes but also to list the similarities and differences between the two groups of women and similarities and differences among women of the same group. Given these results, we conclude that the nuns and prostitutes resignify "to be woman" in their discursive spaces