Prototypical scenes of feminist protests: the materiality of the body in the movement of discourse

Abstract Considering the relation between body-space and discourse, this article aims to analyze the signifying materiality of the body based on some prototypical scenes of feminist protestations. Thereunto, our theoretical and analytical reference point takes place in the perspective of the historical materialism of the French discourse analysis, from which we seek to observe the discourse movements regarding the meanings of/about the body that are placed on the borders between evidence and opacity. The choice of this material allowed us to invest on the analyzis of the relation of body significance in the process of discursivisation of feminists protests. Hereupon, it is possible to observe how the conditions of meaning production of/about the body are set in different spaces, in history, in the memory, in the social, in the symbolic and in the political ones.