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Abstract

History is a narrative that records past events, notes and preserves the memories of peoples, and documents the interpretation of facts adopted, officially and institutionally approved in cause and effect controversy. However, the historian is a narrator, a human being, who, since Herodotus, has been producing his knowledge in relation to his culture, confusing act and passion, letting his representations slip through his speeches. Science, in parallel, generally does not go far from the characteristics of History. Although Man may appear in terminology and linguistics, as much as a human being who includes in his lexical entry the oscillating definition between femininity, masculinity and the multiple characteristics of the human race, the strength of the androcentric vision and of the male order itself are not seen, compared to the linguistic representation of the dominant thought in the patriarchal society lacking justification. By declining some arguments and misrepresentations, the article analyses the representation formed by the narrative of passions within male-oriented society concerning femininity and women, a representation whose history, knowledge and human thought have constituted the majority of its definitions. The analysis of the problematic is based on the objective of postmodernism, which has been achieved in cultural studies and in the broadening transversal approaches, both in epistemology and methodology. Furthermore, the article tries to maintain its approach, taking inspiration from Greimas and the semiotics of passions, to dissolve the evidences and explore the structures of female inferiority in history, Aristotelian thought and patriarchal society.

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