Mônica: imagem e representação feminina nas tiras de Mauricio de Sousa (1963-1976)

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Thiago Carvalho
• Orientador(a): Feijó, Martin Cezar
• Banca de defesa: Tiburi, Marcia Angelita , Gottlieb, Liana
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Educação, Arte e História da Cultura
• Departamento: Educação, Arte e História
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: história em quadrinhos; gênero feminino; estudos culturais; Mônica; Mauricio de Sousa
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: comic strips; female gender; cultural studies; Mônica; Mauricio de Sousa
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/24941

This research which involves Arts and History of Culture proposes a look back at the 1960 s. The setting is Brazil, politically disturbed and on the verge of a military coup which would depose President João Goulart (1919-1976) and establish a military regime that would rule until late 80 s. In this oppressive context we find Mônica, character of a cartoon series designed by Mauricio de Sousa starting in 1963. The little girl, who would gain international recognition, started as a secondary character in the comic strips featuring Cebolinha, another popular character by Sousa. In a few years Mônica would be taken to the top as Sousa a main character, which led to the gathering of a group of characters under the title of A Turma da Mônica (Mônica s Bunch). This research describes the beginning of Sousa a career and his characters with the purpose of getting acquainted with the first comic strips. Based on the British Cultural Studies, an intellectual movement dedicated to cultural analysis and discussion established after the Frankfurt School, we will demonstrate what is the involvement of selected midia with the context of creation, in order to demonstrate the relations of power between them. Mônica, the main character of this research is a girl who always overcomes conflicts by means of physical power and by such an attitude has always been portraited as violent by critics and readers. In this study we will demonstrate how the character resists to successive attempts from the other characters to convince her to be more feminine . The characteristics attributed to such a gender are fundamental to the discussion that aims at analyzing the cultural construction of male and female roles in the Brazilian society in the 1960 s.