The STAFF IS POLITICAL: AN ANALYSIS OF JOURNALISTIC PRODUCTION ABOUT WOMENS’S WORK IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PANDEMIC FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF ARGUMENTATION

Abstract

It is seen the insistent assignment of domestical violence issues to the private sphere, as a private and family situation, and not as a consequence of a patriarchal scenario, belonging to the public sphere. In the face of this reality, the present article analyses the journalistic approach around the impact of the new coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) pandemic on Brazilian women’s routine, starting from the necessity of social distancing/isolation.Methodologically, four newspaper articles published in newspaper websites between April 15 th and May 15 th of 2020 and that address to the tripod “women, work and pandemic”, searching elements that give the public subsidies to understand the social organization of violence against women that ascended during the pandemic, focusing on argumentation tactics employed. We look especially for the work of Carol Hanisch, História para fazer história (1996) and to the argumentation categories created by Fiorin (2016). We conclude that the different argumentative tactics are used to produce sense, manifesting one same reality of oppression.