BODIES THAT COMMUNICATE

DISCOURSE OF THE PERMISSIVENESS OF THE MALE BODY IN THE MEDIA

Abstract

Based on the Foucaultian archaeogenealogy, this paper intends to do a discursive analysis of the posts from the profile Quebrando o Tabu (QoT), discussing about the construction of the permissiveness discourse which is linked to the priority of the male eye about the body. Hence, we try to clarify the masculinity as a mark of a social rule that causes the feminine body to be associated with immorality. We develop the reflections based on the Discourse Analysis as per the theoretical and methodological contributions of Michel Foucault (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014). As research north, we comprehend that the body, as a historic-discursive production, is highlighted as a praxis of saying that requires the subject takes positions of subjectivity and provides the meaning effects of permissiveness, naturalization, as well as evidence-silence operations. As a critique of the media tools and ways to show and talk about the body, we understand the need of hanging the knowledge clusters and the historical references that address the subjects and theirs effects of natural continuity. From our perspective, this kind of strategic visibility makes us to assumption of a mismatch among the places reserved for subjects when we observe the correlation between masculine and feminine.