Girlhood and Greta Thunberg’s image on the cover of Time magazine

I reflect on how certain contemporary representations enunciate the concept of girl. The objective is to turn feminist communication studies to a subject marginalized in feminisms, but considered crucial for human development, and to understand how these discourses build visibility regimes about gir...

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Autor: Gomes Barbosa, Karina
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2022
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositório:Revista Estudos Feministas
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/76367
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/76367
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Resumo:I reflect on how certain contemporary representations enunciate the concept of girl. The objective is to turn feminist communication studies to a subject marginalized in feminisms, but considered crucial for human development, and to understand how these discourses build visibility regimes about girls. For this, I resort to a critical cultural analysis, combining the materiality of the image of environmental activist Greta Thunberg on the cover of Time magazine (May 2019) with the power relations that surround and/or involve her, with the analytical support of a digital flânerie of the activist’s networks. The theoretical framework is anchored in girlhood studies and feminist studies.Greta’s image seems to speak of the inconstancy of the girl’s epistemology, marked by fissures and traumas in representation, as well as the absence of other bodies, other girls, to enunciate it.