Trangressões de gênero em Steven Universe: os desenhos animados como tecnologia de gênero

Abstract

The present work proposes reflections about the representations of gender linked in the cartoon Steven Universe. With the cultural transformations arising from postmodernity, the notions about identities, especially those of gender, are changing. The media and the representations act on this construction of the genre, telling which identities may exist and which ones can not. We will investigate the possibility of a cartoon like Steven Universe acting as a locus of subversion of prevailing gender identities. Through the analysis of the main personages of the drawing, we observe the changes of the representations of gender in the animations directed towards the infanto-juvenil public.