Um corpo no mundo: as subjetividades discursivas no relato de empoderamento de uma mulher gorda através do feminismo

Abstract

This is an analysis of the trajectory of Alexandra Gurgel - youtuber and creator of content about self-love, fatness and feminism - reported in her book Stop hating yourself: because loving your own body is a revolutionary act. In this study, we aim to understand the power relationships that subject the fat woman's body through discursive crossings - such as Christian religious discourse, medical scientific discourse and liberal discourse - that produce effects of control, regulation and regularization of bodies and behaviors . As a methodological support, Michel Foucault's theoretical assumptions about archaeological discourse analysis were started, mainly about discursive formations, in addition to Djamila Ribeiro's concept of place of speech. In this sense, three great discursive formations were structured that permeated the theoretical contribution and the analysis of the corpus, being the religious discourse, the medical scientific discourse and the liberal economic discourse. This is done, from the author's account, as a fat woman, about her experiences with fatophobia and how, through her contact with feminism, she leaves a place of not accepting herself, to a posture of empowerment. The analysis considered excerpts from the book, as well as factors of reception and circulation of its release, evaluation and public comments, in order to problematize the subjectivity relationships of the author as a subject and as a reproducer of discourses that clash, cross and produce effects in your audience. It was considered that in her journey of acceptance of her body, Alexandra Gurgel comes out of experiences of fatophobia that mainly involve her social relationships involved by confluences of religious and medical discourses, through feminism that plays a role in empowering Alexandra as a fat woman. However, the liberal economic discourse that is part of subjectivation practices about the ideal of the body based on a logic of consumption and is associated with aesthetic oppression, is often incorporated by the author, also producing effects of empowerment and reproducing a logic of feminism or acceptance of the fat body as a consumer good.