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LISA AND THE SPEAKING DOLL: AN ANALYSIS ON THE SYMBOLIC GENDER VIOLENCE REPRODUCTION MECHANISM IN THE SITCOM OS SIMPSONS

 The Simpsons ; symbolic gender violence ; speech analysis; toy.

Lisa and the Talking Doll is an episode of the American sitcom The Simpsons, portrays the relationship of the characters in the universe with the talking Malibu doll, where their speeches and representations are tensioned. Based on a Bourdieusian analysis, the doll would be a mechanism for the reproduction of symbolic gender violence, considering that this “soft, insensitive and invisible violence” is presented in the episode when gender issues are being stressed. Thus, the following dissertation starts from the hypothesis that the symbolic gender violence present in the episode is propagated through a reproduction mechanism, the Malibu Stacy doll. With the research problem that would be: How does the mechanism of reproduction of symbolic gender violence influence the speeches of the characters in the episode Lisa and the talking doll? Therefore, we established as a general objective : To analyze how the reproduction mechanism of symbolic gender violence influences the discursive constitution of the characters in the episode Lisa and the talking doll. And as specific objectives : 1st) Define what symbolic gender violence is and how we construct such a concept ; 2nd) Identify the mechanism of reproduction of symbolic gender violence in the episode and 3rd) Present the universe “The Simpsons” and its characters. We start from a qualitative approach, with the bibliographic modality and the Discourse Analysis technique. We use as theoretical foundation Pierre Bourdieu (1992, 1999, 2001, 2009) with his concepts about the habitus, universalization, male domination and symbolic violence, Michel Foucault (2005, 2008, 2014a, 2014b) with his precepts on discourse, Judith Butler (2003) with issues related to gender, Gilles Brougère (2010) to characterize the doll as a toy within the respective universe and Rodrigo Seabra (2016) regarding the concepts of animated series and sitcom.