Visibilidade lésbica nos dicionários: um percurso pela história da palavra e seus efeitos de sentido

Abstract

This course conclusion work proposes a journey through the history of the lesbian word and its meaning effects in dictionaries throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, with the aim of investigating how the meanings that make up the word are traced and also the other words triggered by it. We also traveled through the paths that are being followed in the contemporary world, in order to observe which meanings proposed by the dictionaries are maintained and which have been updated. We seek to make visible the word that represents female homosexuality, as well as subsidize future studies on the lesbian theme. The results of our research indicate that, although our word of analysis has started to appear in dictionaries from the 21st century onwards, it continues to be attributed the sense of lack, the result of a way of thinking imposed by the patriarchy and which remains until the present time today in society.