A disputa discursiva em torno dos conceitos de ‘estupro’, ‘consentimento’ e ‘violência’ em um acórdão do TJRS-Brasil
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Discurso judicial. Gênero. Estupro. Consentimento. Violência.Abstract
From a discursive point of view, the understanding and representation of gender frequently are objects of struggle in legal discourse, especially in what concerns the distinctions between men and women, their social roles and their relations. In order to investigate these discursive disputes, in this work I apply conceptual and analytical tools from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Feminist Studies to investigate the representations of gender and sexual violence in a Brazilian appellate decision on a rape trial. The analysis indicates that the Brazilian legal system is still anchored on patriarchal presuppositions about women’s sexuality. In the appeal decision analysed, the magistrates framed the dispute over the concepts of ‘rape’, ‘consent’ and ‘violence’ according to the prevailing cultural view that the complainant/victim did not show enough or appropriate resistance, and that the absence of physical violence and ‘major threats’ in cases of coerced sex is equal to consent.
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