Women in urban public space

Abstract

This work articulates contributions from cultural studies, visual studies and the semiotics of the image to board the visual repertoires about women in the urban public space during the 32nd National Women's Meeting in the context of production and circulation of media discourses.

Are recovered publications from October 14 to 16, 2017, development dates of the meeting. This selection is divided into: local newspapers with both print and digital circulation (Norte and El Diario de La Región), and (2) magazines with national coverage and entirely digital circulation (La Primera Piedra and LatFem). Together, these media published 39 articles and 232 photographs.

The contrast shows that the media construction focuses on: representations of the city space where women appear in “colorful” demonstrations (Norte), and on representations of women configured as the significant spatiality where the signs of the city space only appear through the capture of the graffiti message (LPP).