A constituição de um dispositivo de empoderamento feminino: práticas de poder e de resistência

Abstract

Through language, in its discursive functioning, it is possible to categorize the world, produce different discourses and new forms of subjectivity in a given historical moment. Thus, within this perspective, this research focuses on the discursive materiality of the statements of female empowerment to promote the analysis of power/knowledge relations that allowed the emergence of discourses on equality and diversity of genders disseminated since the beginning of the 21st century. From a Foucaultian perspective, determining empowerment as a power device that enabled the feminist discourse of women's emancipation and which was, through the practices of objectification and subjectivation of marginalized bodies, in the scope of discourses on gender diversity. Empowerment as a device is a possibility that is seen as a discourse analyst and assumes that the emergence of this statement and its constitution, as a device of power, produces other forms of subjectivity, enabling subjects to exercise freedom practices through ethics and for self-care, while materializing a process of resistance to hetero(cis) normative discourses on sexuality, sex and gender. In this scenario, the general objective is to verify the statement of empowerment as a power-knowledge device and its relationship with the emergence of resistance discourses that enabled the production of new identities. In addition to the specific objectives: i) describe the conditions for the possibility of emergence of discourses of empowerment and interpret the effects of power and resistance produced by these statements within the scope of a device of power/knowledge; ii) analyze the production of new forms of subjectivity through the statement of empowerment in marginalized groups; iii) expose the ways in which subjects transgress hetero(cis)normative norms and, through the device of empowerment, exercise practices of freedom of their existence. Thus, as a hypothesis, empowerment was outlined as a device of power, since it promotes the constitution of active/reactive subjects of themselves, and in which it is possible to identify a production of subjectivity in these bodies, imposing disciplines and standards of conduct, to the at the same time that it is produced and conducted. As a methodological tool will be used the theoretical framework of Discursive Studies Foucaultians, Gilles Deleuze (1992), among others, and under the precepts of these authors reflect how these complex relations of power constituted the feminist subject and enabled the emergence of statements of struggle for equality and by the diversity of genres nowadays. Empowerment is constituted as a power device as it enables the emergence of new forms of existence and subjectivity, enabling subjects to exercise freedom practices through ethics and self-care, while materializing statements of resistance to discourses hetero(cis)normatives on sexuality, sex and gender, which were, by resistance discourses, re-signified by the LGBTQIAP+ movement and enabled conditions for the production of statements about equality and diversity. For the research, we propose to analyze another set of corpuses taken from media statements and made available on social networks, the institutional statements of the UN and UN Women, the laws of the Federal Constitution of Brazil of 1988, as well as scientific articles that contribute to referential support and methodological.