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Do palavrão ao diálogo: A performatividade do feminismo contra os jogos vorazes da linguagem patriarcal

2021; University of Nebraska Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/fro.2021.0026

1536-0334

Márcia Tiburi,

Gender, Sexuality, and Education

The article starts from the issue of misogynistic violence against the words feminism and feminist in an attempt to understand the basis of the more recent hatred of the word gender. The word gender has been used against itself in misogynistic theories such as the pseudo-criticism of “gender ideology.” Misogyny is the official discourse of patriarchy, whose basic strategy is to treat everything that refers to the non-masculine as negative in a perpetual action that we can call active prejudice. Misogyny is also the “performative” operator by which one understands in what sense one is speaking, i.e., there is no hate without discourse. If gender is performative (Butler) it is because language is performative (Austin) and words define fields of action and forms of action. Gender is something that is created in phallogocentric language for the submission and subjugation of bodies. Patriarchal society is phallocratic in which men are agents of power and violence and women and LGBTQI+ people are objects of these violences that entail the most basic epistemological violence given in the attitude of defining and naming. If patriarchy is discursive, feminism is dialogical. The following text seeks to open paths for this reflection.