Mulheres da realidade: gênero e jornalismo na mídia impressa brasileira (1966-1976)

Abstract

This research presents an interdisciplinary approach on issues related to gender and language in the Brazilian press during the 60‘s and 70‘s of last century. The scopes are issues of the magazine Realidade, the main vehicle of Abril publishing house in the period, which had the highest-paid journalists of this related time. The focus is the representation of women in these magazines, a work in two stages, the first analyzes of the covers and then content analysis of an issue seen as paradigmatic within our scope. As a general objective we aim at understanding the representations of women in Realidade consistent with the historical, cultural, political and social period approached. As specific objectives, we have an image analysis through the covers; discuss the male domination and patriarchal society; present the main aspects of the feminist movement in the decades mentioned, and investigate the history of the country and its cultural industry, with more interest in print press. We focus on all more than 120 editions of the magazine released between 1966 and 1976, choosing to image analysis covers all indices containing women, adopting gender like a category of analysis. This methodology was also applied to the analysis of reports, putting about representations of women's issue number 10, dedicated exclusively to thematizations of womanhood, relating with aspects of the feminist movement in Brazil between 1960 and 1970.