Discursos sobre a temática do abuso sexual de crianças e da pedofilia na mídia escrita
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2017-08-21
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Moraes, Julianne Caju de Oliveira Souza
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Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
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This masters’ thesis was developed within the Master Degree Program in Education of the
Federal University of Mato Grosso, in Rondonópolis city, in the line of research Language,
culture and knowledge construction process. It was composed within the Study Group
Childhood, Youth and Contemporary Culture (GEIJC, Grupo de Estudos Infância e
Juventude na Cultura Contemporânea). This research aims to analyze the emergence of
articles in printed media on the subject of pedophilia and sexual abuse against children and
adolescents, thus cooperating in the discussions on the rights of the childhood and adolescent
and the social developement of Brazilian childhood and youth. Since the decade of 1990,
pedophilia and sexual abuse against children and adolescents are significant issues that claim
great attention from Brazilian society. In fact, these are issues that need to be addressed
promptly. To do so, understanding the outline of their social definition, that is, the way these
issues are viewed by society has repercussions on the way in which they are intended to face
it. In the wake of this thought, considering the media as an important social actor in the
interpretation of social issues, we seek to identify the publicization, as well as rhetoric and
discursive repertoires, used in the emergence of the themes of sexual abuse against children
and adolescents and pedophilia. This study enquires whether the substantial increasing of
these themes, in the last two decades, has been contributed to the confrontation of these
problems in Brazilian society or if the dramas around these issues have been used to feed a
sensationalist approach to this subject. This research was developed within J.B. Thompson’s
methodological proposals called Depth Hermeneutics (DH). We’ve analyzed the newspaper
Folha de São Paulo’s two-hundred and twenty-one articles on the subject of pedophilia and
“child sexual abuse”, in the period of 1976 and 1990. The data analyzed indicated pedophilia
had been ignored by Folha de São Paulo until the 80’s, as from the 90’s have been the object
of increasing attention. Also, it shows that the publicization is associated to the emergence of
sexual violence against children and teenagers, in the international scenario, and also to the
diffusion of children and adolescents’ rights, in the Brazilian scenario, thanks to the
promulgation of the Children and Teenager Statute (ECA, Estatuto da Criança e do
Adolescente) in 1990. We also notice that the newspaper uses the expression pedophilia to
refer to “child sexual abuse”, and that this choice causes more impact on the audience, being
quite sensationalist. Thus, the term pedophilia was being built up, meaning that all and any
sexual abuse against children and adolescents has correlation with pedophilia. More than that,
it became a major social problem and, as it was written began to cause panic among the
public. However, this characterization does not work as sensationalism only, but it has
deleterious effects in facing this issue, as it also contributes to build a conception of abuser as
a sick person, defocusing the character of “child sexual abuse” as a cultural phenomenon
produced and sustained by a society structured on age and gender inequalities and sustained
by patriarchal values and practices.
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MORAES, Julianne Caju de Oliveira Souza. Discursos sobre a temática do abuso sexual de crianças e da pedofilia na mídia escrita. 2017. 208 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Rondonópolis, 2017.