El discurso de Carmen Clemente Travieso a la luz de las nociones de ideología y los enfoques feministas actuales sobre la comunicación

Abstract

Carmen Clemente Travieso (Caracas, 1900- 1983) was the first journalist woman in Venezuela, and is considered by many as the predecessor of the feminist movement in her country. This study focuses on fragments of six of her articles, written between 1936 and 1939. The main objective was to determine which approach to feminism better characterizes this journalist’s discourse. Four different approaches were compared: the “deficit approach”, the “dominance approach”, the “difference approach” and the “dynamic approach”. After careful analysis it is fair to conclude that Clemente Travieso’s discourse can be best explained within the framework of the dynamic approach. I support my appreciation on two facts: 1) she does not encourage women to imitate men but to liberate themselves from their own prejudices in order to become their equal, and 2) she considers men as victims of the “outdated” and “deformed” morals of Venezuela at that time. The second purpose of this work is to determine the ways in which van Dijk’s (2008) socio-cognitive criteria apply to the ideology reflected in Clemente Travieso’s texts.