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The rethoric of suffering in the thematization of the debate for the legalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in argentinean magazine television

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No. 20 (2023): Diciembre
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2023.73461

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In this article, we propose to analyze the thematization of the debate around the legalization of abortion in Argentine television programs from the magazine genre (2018-2020). We carried out a reconstruction of the history of argentine feminist activism, its impact on the public space and the increase of its presence in the media’s agenda, within the sociological discourse analysis framework. Analyzing specific broadcasts of Intratables and La noche de Mirtha, we found a contrasting treatment in the research time period. We observed that the rhetoric of suffering was constituted as a transversal axis of the thematization of the abortion, producing the figure of the victim woman. Likewise, we analyzed the accumulation of moral capital by certain actors, which legitimizes their social positioning and constitutes them as moral guardians of abortion experiences.

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Abortion, television, rhetoric of suffering, victim woman, moral pedagogies

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Guadalupe Allione Riba, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Instituto de Estudios sobre Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad

Licenciada en Sociología por la Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Doctoranda en Estudios Sociales de América Latina por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Becaria doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Instituto de Estudios sobre Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad

Paloma Rubin, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Licenciada en Sociología por la Universidad Nacional de Villa María. Doctoranda en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Becaria doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Centro de Conocimiento, Formación e Investigación en Estudios Sociales

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Allione Riba, G., & Rubin, P. (2023). The rethoric of suffering in the thematization of the debate for the legalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in argentinean magazine television. Revista Punto Género, (20), pp. 62–91. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2023.73461
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