Whitney, meu amor: as representações do feminino, masculino e as opiniões das leitoras da obra de Judith Mcnaught

Abstract

The present work intends to discuss a female and male representation in the Whitney period novel, my love publications of 1999, 2014 and 2018 by author Judith McNaught, as well as the reception of the work by the researched readers. For an analysis proposed here, we use concepts for the theoretical basis on femininity by Maria Rita Kehl, Heleieth Saffioti, E. Badinter, Pierre Bourdieu among others, and to discuss masculinity as the leading theorists of Raewyn Connell society and its male personality hegemonic, and subordinate, H. Safffioti, Maria Beatriz Nader, Joan Scott, M. Kimmel, Socrátes Nolasco, Bourdieu, M. Almeida and Pedro P. Oliveira, among others. Using Norbert Elias and his configuration, we analyze the relationships between the female and male characters of the work, proposing a figurative analysis. Before discussing the masculine and feminine representation of the work, we set out to analyze how readers' opinions mainly use Iser's Reception Aesthetics, in dialogue with Roger Chartier and his Cultural History. From the protagonism of the readers in the reception of the work, propose a feminine criticism, deconstruct an image of the "reader" and make a "reader" emerge in the feminine, for this she Elaine Showalter, Brizotto, Bellin and other authors.