Are Girls that Powerful?
Thoughts on Children’s Animations Aimed at Female Audience
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childhood, girls, female heroes, representations, children's cartoonsAbstract
Subjectivities are constructed on the ba-sis of various discourses, and one of the aspects that directly interferes in girls’ thoughts is the audiovisual production to which they have access and which acts as pedagogical devices (Fisher, 2002). Thus, the aim of this article is to answer the questions and show the results of the research titled,“Are girls that powerful: representations and affections of heroic girls from children’s cartoons”. The discus-sion is about a feminist and an audiovisual studies perspective, through a theoretical-conceptual articulation established mainly in Perea’s (2015) studies and their rela-tionship with the data obtained. In order to achieve the results and question them, children’s animations widely circulated in Brazil are chosen as the object of study. Through observation, questions are asked about female heroes, protagonism, and gender signs. In addition, the relationship with other characters is also analyzed, such as sorority and female rivalry and how children’s bodies are represented. The data gathered confirms the hypothesis that these animations present permanence and rupture of gender characteristics.
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