O feminino no discurso policial militar: da “ordem unida” ao “espírito de corpo”

Abstract

In this article we seek to reflect on the ways in which the female body was represented and constructed in the military police discourse. The corpuschosen for this analysis was an article published in the newspaper “A Tarde” in 1990, which portrayed the training of the first women to join the ranks of the Military Police of Bahia (PMBA) at its beginning. We employ materialist discourse analysis (DA) along the lines of Michel Pêcheux as a theoretical and methodological contribution. We reflect, therefore, on the ways in which the female body was rendered discursive, based on norms, rules and military police aesthetics. We therefore highlight, through discursive memory, the role of historicity and the concept of subjecting the subject, crossed by language and history and questioned by ideology. The bodies of women joining that Corporation were shaped through the incorporation of military values and interdictions, establishing “what could or could not be said” by public security agents.