Performativity and gender in the newspaper discourse of the newspaper La Prensa in the government of Violeta Barrios, 1990-1997

Abstract

The decade of the nineties stands out in the sociopolitical history of Nicaragua as an era of relevant political processes, highlights a historical situation that laid the foundations of a journalistic discourse of strong political and polarizing character that emphasizes emphatically in which the dichotomy of peace / war duality woman / man was associated as antagonistic elements and as an expression of gender relations and stereotypes in force in Nicaraguan society. In this sense, this article analyzes the newspaper discourse of the newspaper La Prensa about the political news of the presidential period of Violeta Barrios (1990-1997) from the analysis of content and discourse, using the informational semiotic model as a theoretical basis for the analysis. Similarly, the gender perspective is used to analyze the gender categories that structured the journalistic discourse around the construction of the image of what would be the first female president of Nicaragua.