O papel das redes sociais na subjetificação feminina e seus corpos: uma análise à luz das concepções de poder social de Foucault

Abstract

The theme of this dissertation is the analysis of the use of social networks as a power device in the subjectification of women and their bodies. It starts with the theoretical framework of Foucault's genealogy, in which he analyzes the power relations that affect society, as well as how these relations change over the course of social transformations, and how these power relations affect the individual and their body, constructing their subjectivity. Next, the construction of the subject, subjectivity, objectification and the subjectification of the subject through the lines of force of power are explained. As a consequence, it goes into the relations of gender oppression, specifically the construction of the subjectification of women and their bodies. In this study, the body is understood to go beyond the biological body, being recognized in this work as a powerful instrument of power. The final section brings together the perspectives of Foucault's genealogy and the emergence of online social networks, in order to show that social networks act as a device of social power, disciplining, modulating and subjectifying women and their bodies as a market product, in a much more effective way, through oppression and domination, with a view to maintaining social power. Thus, the most important aspect of this work is to demonstrate that, through online social networks, there is the incidence of social power, in a much more subtle economic and potent way, acting on the subjectification of women and their bodies.