Sandy x Wanessa Camargo: a representação da rivalidade feminina no jornalismo

Abstract

This work aims to understand how journalistic articles contribute to the maintenance of female rivalry discourses, based on the analysis of the articles discourse that deal with the case between Sandy and Wanessa Camargo. In recent years, the media have been considered one of the main responsible not only for the creation, but also for the maintenance of discriminatory representations in relation to women. To achieve the proposed objective, French discourse analysis was used as a method to find discursive paraphrases about the relationship between these two singers in 10 articles from UOL Grup websites, that talked about the participation of these artists in the program “Domingão com Huck”. The analysis identified 122 discursive sequences and 9 meanings responsible for forming two major Discursive Formations: Rivalry and Friendship. The results indicate that journalists contribute to the perpetuation of female rivalry when they highlight the meanings that reinforce the idea that there was, and in some cases there is, a rivalry between the singers, while the meanings that contributed to altering this popular imaginary, appeared, mostly, in lower spaces of the texts, without any prominence.