The female morality of the victorian era: the 19th and 20th-centuries european female castration from the intercultural information ethics
A CASTRAÇÃO FEMININA EUROPEIA DOS SÉCULOS XIX E XX A PARTIR DA ÉTICA INTERCULTURAL DA INFORMAÇÃO
Keywords:
Intercultural information ethics, Female castration, Victorian eraAbstract
Intercultural information ethics studies become relevant for strengthening a cultural mediation of information grounded in the promotion of dialogues formed by diverse moral conceptions and arguments from distinct cultural traditions. This study aims to analyze discourses regarding moral conceptions of femininity related to the female castration in 19th and 20th-century Europe, seeking to incorporate intercultural contributions from Afro-Latin-American feminism and to Identify relevant informational authorities, symbolic spaces of oppression, and other mechanisms involved in the cultural mediation of information within Eurocentric patriarchal information regimes. A documentary research was conducted, adopting the qualitative method of Discourse Analysis. The corpus of analysis comprised letters by Queen Victoria recounting symbolic spaces of oppression experienced in childhood and adulthood, as well as Freud's essay on the female castration complex. The results indicate that both informational authorities mediated the following set of moral conceptions: association with the domestic sphere, exclusion from political participation, valuation of motherhood as a social function, and submission to male authority. Observed that the anthropologists Marcela Lagarde and Rita Segato deepened the discussion on the psychoanalytic concepts of the female castration complex and the Oedipus complex, identifying the symbolic spaces of oppression of "mother-wife," "nun," "whore," "prisoner," and "madwoman" and incorporating the intersectionalities of race, class, and sexism. This study is expected to contribute to the development of research linked to this theme within the field of cross-cultural information ethics.