Abstract:This research investigates how religious organizations of the African matrix, through the discourse expressed in the songs intended for and chanted to the Pomba-Giras , contest gender stereotypes, enabling the understanding of multiple femininities. In this article, to analyze the corpus , we opted for the methodological theoretical contribution of the French discourse analysis (DA) derived from Pêcheux. We observed that by studying gender in religious organizations, through the figure of the Pomba-Giras , spa… Show more
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