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This study constitutes a journalistic framing analysis of the Brazilian weekly magazines Veja and IstoÉ coverage of the impeachment process of former president Dilma Rousseff, which was concluded in August 2016, from a gender perspective. A multimodal analysis is used as a methodological approach, adding some elements to the classic functions of framing, such as the study of sources, information channels, and rhetorical strategies related to journalism. It is possible to infer that the journalistic framing of the impeachment process by the two Brazilian magazines plays a destabilizing political role in the power game, and that it suffers influences from the sexist universe that historically characterizes the deliberative politics in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]