Engendered Emotion: Gender, Power, and the Rhetoric of Emotional Control in American Discourse

Gênero, emoções e vitimização: percepções sobre a violência urbana no Rio de Janeiro

“…Um exemplo de tal visão é o próprio trabalho de Lutz (1990) incluído nesta coletânea. Nele, a autora retoma suas reflexões sobre o lugar da emoção no pensamento ocidental, partindo da ideia de que "qualquer discurso sobre emoção é também, ao menos implicitamente, um discurso sobre gênero" (1990:69, tradução minha).…”

“…Este artigo discute a relação entre gênero, emoções e experiências de vitimização, inserindo-se na área de investigação da antropologia das emoções e tomando como vertente teórica o "contextualismo" (Abu-Lughod & Lutz, 1990), com sua ênfase na dimensão micropolítica das emoções. O foco está em uma modalidade específica da violência urbana: os assaltos a residências.…”

O gênero do amor: cultura terapêutica e feminismos

“…According to Lutz (2008), discourses on emotions are related to discourses of gender, and the gendered rhetorics of emotional control transform discourses on emotions into statements on the exercise of power. Although both men and women use rhetorics of emotional control in the affective-sexual field described above, they can also be seen to establish different meanings and claims.…”

“…The division between ethos and worldview, which is relativized in Velho's analysis, permeates his anthropological work as it was important for understanding how values and moralities are built within relationships among very diverse social groups in the urban space and, at the same time, how this Women and love are not related a priori within the ethnography on anonymous groups because the social drama of addiction -in its relation to an affective-sexual field and containing romantic notions -was expressed through expectations and categories that mobilized both men and women. In this context, the rhetorics of emotional control relate to multiple, coexisting gender discourses (Rosaldo, 1978;Lutz, 2008).…”

“…They also argue that the discourse of emotional control finds parallels in discourses of sexual control. This control rhetoric requires a psycho-physical essence that is manipulated and directed to dispels a socially constructed nature from the notion of emotions (Lutz, 2008). However, according to this point of view, emotions are not just a historical and cultural construct but best defined as something that only exists in context, and that emerges through the relationship between interlocutors and their reference (Rezende and Coelho, 2010). instances and effects that intervene in both settings, transforming both.…”