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Un Hombre Puede Hacerlo, pero ¿una Mujer? A Critical Discourse Analysis Showing how Mexican Women might be Machistas

Silvia Monserrat Pacheco Constantino * monsepacheco3108@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-5083-5861
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, MEXICO

Open Journal for Anthropological Studies, 2020, 4(1), 25-34 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojas.0401.03025p
Received: 1 June 2020 ▪ Accepted: 25 August 2020 ▪ Published Online: 31 October 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Thousands of women die every day all over the world due to violence. Mexico is a country in which it is believed that machismo is one of the reasons why women are violated and murdered. There is the stereotype of believing that the female gender is being mistreated directly by men. However, this study aimed to show how women express themselves with a negative connotation against their own gender. Perhaps, females portrait themselves as feminists or women defenders. Nonetheless, their language states their true position. This project employed a critical discourse analysis under the use of Fairclough’s model. The results demonstrated how the discourse employed by the participants highlighted a machista perception towards women.

KEY WORDS: critical discourse analysis, machismo, violence against women, female perceptions.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Silvia Monserrat Pacheco Constantino (MA student), University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lascurain de Retana #5, Guanajuato, MEXICO, 36000. E-mail: monsepacheco3108@gmail.com.

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