O FEMINICÍDIO COMO OBJETO HISTORIOGRÁFICO: PODER, DISCURSO E SILENCIAMENTO NA CRÍTICA DA NOVA HISTÓRIA CULTURAL
O FEMINICÍDIO COMO OBJETO HISTORIOGRÁFICO: PODER, DISCURSO E SILENCIAMENTO NA CRÍTICA DA NOVA HISTÓRIA CULTURAL
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.059112616017
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Palavras-chave: Historiografia, Feminicídio, Memória
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Keywords: Historiography; Femicide; Memory
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Abstract: This article was developed as the final assignment for the course History and Historiography in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Catalão, based on the texts discussed in class and the insightful contributions of the professor, who consistently introduced a gender perspective in dialogue with the selected readings. Arising from classroom reflections and from the unfortunate increase in violence against women in Brazil—culminating in devastating cases of murder defined as femicide—this study takes as its triggering context the suppression of the term “gender” from public and political discourse.The objective of this article is to understand what historiography teaches us about silences, representations, and the production of memory in the face of contemporary violence against women, particularly femicide. The study is based on a brief qualitative bibliographic review, articulated with data from the Brazilian Public Security Forum (Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública – FBSP) and other public information sources on violence and security in Brazil. The theoretical framework draws on Certeau (1988), Chartier (1991), Nora and Le Goff (1988), and Ginzburg (1989). Thus, the text is justified by the need to challenge discourses that naturalize the death of women, reaffirming History as a field of meaning-making, social responsibility, and confrontation of gender inequalities. It seeks to demonstrate that femicide, beyond being a statistical datum, constitutes a historical and historiographical problem, permeated by narrative disputes, silences, and processes of memory erasure. By mobilizing historiography as an analytical lens, the article emphasizes the urgency of questioning dominant discourses and the invisibilization of women’s trajectories.
- Ana Carolina