PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Guerra, Vânia Maria Lescano
AU  - de Almeida, Willian Diego
TI  - Juridical discourse as la brisure: a deconstructive-discursive analysis of the Maria da Penha law
DP  - 2015 Jun 1
TA  - Romanica Olomucensia
PG  - 21--39
VI  - 27
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/ro.2015.002
IS  - 18034136
AB  - The aim of this work is to discuss the stereotyping of the meaning effects that emerge in the legal discourse of the Maria da Penha Law. The hypothesis is that the law, which sought to include females in the order of legal discourse, (re-) affirms the marginalization of Brazilian women. The study is guided by the following theoretical contributions: the discursive perspective of the French approach, Foucault's concepts of Archaeology and Genealogy, and Derrida's deconstruction theory. The results lead to the conclusion that this particular law is inevitably affected by subjectivity having meaning effects that maintain the power of submission, beliefs, and values that intervene in the discursive practices, the cultural dimension, and the historical and collective experience of the subjects.