Moda enquanto discurso: vestimenta e gênero na construção do corpo político

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the role of fashion in the construction of gender and the body politic. Through a discursive reading of these three elements, it seeks to understand whether and how clothing is capable of producing and perpetuating power relations that in themselves are responsible for the production of subjects, gender and politics. For this end, the concept of device understood within the theory developed by Michel Foucault and the theory of Gender Performativity by Judith Butler are used. A series of historical examples in which clothes are used as a tool for the construction of subjects are used, the main one being the movement for female suffrage in England, at the beginning of the 20th century.