Displacement of Sense in Discourses Produced about Women

Abstract

In April 2015, Kiran Gandhi decided to run the 42 km of London´s Marathon, without using a pad, in protest against the oppression of women and to promote a discussion on the subject, as in many countries, issues related to women's intimacy are still considered taboos. In this work, we intend to use the French Discourse Analysis (AD) to understand how an act of protest, which aimed at the liberation of women, provoked effects on the opposite direction. Through the analysis of comments from readers about the article published on the internet, describing the act of Kiran during the marathon, we intended to make visible the ideology interpellating these individuals, embodied in the produced and propagated speeches. The idea of ​​female body impurity present in different discursive formations throughout history, maintains these speeches that materialize in different forms of hostility to women in our society. KEYWORDS: Period. Discourse Analysis. Effects of meaning.