CULTURA E DISCURSO ATRAVESSADOS NO CORPO-MULHER DA AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA.

In the Amazon Forest area, the human body and its aspects have unique meanings. They are ambivalent between nature and culture. Use of the Discourse Analysis, by Michel Pêcheux, so as to think of the body, above all the women's body, as a discursive materiality. In the Amazonia, there are specific gender-based roles that affect and regulate the life of women. Biological events, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and postpartum, are socially stigmatized and treated with prejudice. This crossing of the patriarchy terms the signifier "panema" (bad luck) in reference to a woman. To be panema (bringer of bad luck) is a sociobiological condition present in the gender dynamics of certain territories in the Brazilian Amazon. It is a term to justify the several interferences (menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum, etc.) that affect women and their bodies, consequently subjugating them to the power of others. There is an ambivalent portrayal of women's bodies in the social imaginary: on the one hand, it is aligned with the discourse that women are fragile, gentle, and virtuous; on the other hand, they are a source of ominous power and energy marked by biological phenomena. Such a set of meanings, examined through the gender roles lens, limits women and their bodies. It is a source of manipulation and abuse under the patriarchal ideology and its astute logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]