Revista Estudos Feministas (Sep 2019)

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

  • Antonio Teixeira de Barros,
  • Elisabete Busanello

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n253771
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 2

Abstract

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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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