From private to public: the cycle of violence exposed in the speeches of the daughters and sons of femicide victims in news

o ciclo de violências exposto nas falas de filhas(os) de vítimas de feminicídios em relatos jornalísticos

Abstract

The article analyzes whether and to what extent the speeches of daughters and sons of femicide victims published in news can contribute to moving violence that occurred in the private or family sphere into the public sphere, helping to broaden the social perception of femicide as a gender crime. We started  from a discussion about the sources of information in journalistic coverage of feminicides, the relationship between vulnerability and resistance proposed by Butler (2019) and data indicating that daughters usually witness and even experience the cycle of violence that precedes feminicide. The corpus consists of 12 reports published by the NSC Communication network, between 2015 and 2021, in which there are speeches from children over the age of 15. The analysis shows that the speeches move the existence of the cycle of violence that precedes femicide from the private to the public sphere. However, gender violence is not problematized in the journalistic reports.

 Keywords: News coverage; gender violence; sources of information.