Uma contribuição aos estudos sobre representação, à luz do conceito de gênero

Abstract

This piece of research aims at dealing with questions related to the concept of gender and its application in the analysis of representation. At first, it discusses about Gender, pointing out its specilicities as na analytical category. Secondly, it deals with the concept of representation, considering the processes of symbolic production. At last, it locuses on certain discourses that support gender representations in modern Western societies, presenting models of lemininit and masculinily present in those discourses.