Representações femininas nas obras de Chico Buarque

Abstract

In the last twenty years there have been several changes in historiographical studies and approaches regarding gender issues within the Brazilian academic community, especially with regard to places and perceptions about what is feminine in contemporary contexts. Thus, this work, entitled Representations of women in the works of Chico Buarque de Holanda, aimed to study, research, map and analyze, above all, from the concept of representations presented by historian Roger Chartier, the ways in which the female figure is featured in some of the songs by the artist Chico Buarque (“Sem açúcar”, “Ana de Amsterdam”, “A Rita”, “Carolina”, “Bárbara” and “A História de Lily Brown”). Thus, the analysis of the triad: History-Literature-Gender, point to the possibility of visualizing, debating and understanding the secular constructions around women, the nature of the feminine and the intellectual impacts on perceptions about gender relations.