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Women's identity in modernity

This paper deals with changes in the constitution of women's identity in relation to new discourse practices. These are the result of changes in discourse orders due to economic globalization. These changes have altered people's lives and their intimacy, thus modifying their way of being. In this sense, changes in social relations have brought about difficulties in the construction of female identity. Thus, this article, based on critical discourse analysis, seeks to discuss the following issues: the social construction of women's identity; technology and the media as fragmentary agents in women's identity; spatialization in female discourse; the discourse of the body in identity self-realization; women's identity vis à vis transformations in sexuality; the construction of female identity in the family; the identity issue and education and, finally, the world of work as a structuring element in female identity.

Change; Female Identit; Critical Discourse Analysis


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