As manifestações do patriarcado no libelo acusatório do processo de impeachment da ex-presidente Dilma Rousseff

Abstract

According to the lessons of Saffioti (1987; 2011) and Pateman (1993), patriarchy is a structuring form of our society and manifests itself not only in private relations, but also in public spaces. The exclusion of women from political space is just one of the different forms of manifestation of this patriarchy. The impeachment process of ex-president Dilma Rousseff, as a discursive genre produced by legal activity, is not unrelated to the extraverbal conditions of its production. In this study, we use the theoretical-methodological perspective of discursive genres analysis developed by Bakhtin and the Circle, as well as the contemporary scholars of their works, to analyze the list of charges of the impeachment process perceiving the manifestations of patriarchy and how they use the style, the compositional construction and the thematic content of this genre to legitimize its ideology of subordination and domination.