Jessica Jones é um ciborgue? uma análise sobre os feminismos e as super-heroínas

Abstract

This paper has the goal of analyzing the character of the series “Alias”, Jessica Jones, by the publishing line Marvel, published between the years of 2001 and 2004 by the label “Marvel Max”, having the authorship signed by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos. It is taking into consideration also the representation of the same character but featured by the American TV series named “Marvel’s Jessica Jones (2015), by Melissa Rosenberg, broadcasted by Netflix. This analysis is made through the eyes of the philosopher, writer and American professor Donna Haraway, onwards her text named “ A Cyborg Manifesto – Science, technology and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century” (2016). It is selected a specific arch from the comic book that covers the numbers 22 until 28 because it is considered that this arch refers to the one adapted in the Netflix TV series. So I try to understand in which aspects Jessica Jones can be considered cyborg feminist. Besides that, I research about the role of the female characters in the comic books and the changes that the super-heroines passed during the years in their production, edition and circulation. It is made a parallel with the history of the Three Waves of Feminism, analyzing mainly the work and the professions occupied by women, so then, the analysis can be constructed according to political and historical elements. From Donna Haraway’s Manifesto it is made an analysis about the feminism approached by her, the “Cyborg Feminism”, and other kinds of theories that were used as a support to the evaluation about in which aspects the character Jessica Jones could be considered a Cyborg Feminist. The results show that, even though the Haraway’s text is chronologically situated in the Third Wave of Feminism, her Manifesto shows a projection of what can be considered as post-gender and that the character Jessica Jones can be considered a cyborg because she represents a reconstruction and a reinterpretation of the female characters, super-heroines. Jessica Jones, recognized by the audience as feminist, is a Cyborg Feminist because she can represent a possible affinity with her audience and not an identity in mismatch with the “reality”.