The purpose of this article is to analyze how bureaucratic spaces reproduce discourses, showing that, in terms of gender, they do not correspond to innocuous spaces, given that there are normative representations that provide elements of the ideology of domesticity and maternalization of women transmitted through social discourses, supported by representations such as cinema. It is important here to analyze the representation of the secretary in the film The Assistant in order to characterize the specificities that arise from its construction, based on practices related to the (re)presentation of the body-territory and the deployment in the use of public/private space in the protagonist of the film. For this purpose, the Relief Maps tool (Rodó-Zárate, 2013, 2021) is applied, intersecting the categories of gender, age and social class with the places that figure most in the film. It eme...

This article aims to highlight the epistemic value of emotions in research, considering feminist criticism of the hierarchical power relationship that is traditionally maintained between the subject and the researcher in qualitative methodology. Through field experience and elements that situate and empower the subjects, emotionally sensed knowledge is generated and validated by those who experience it. The co-production of narrative life stories becomes a central element in the proposed analysis, providing an opportunity to comprehend the dynamics of male dominance and the exercises of power prevalent in the intimate relationships of women who have experienced violence from incarcerated men, as presented in the experience of La Chora. The methodological and creative approach, therefore, becomes crucial in the theoretical and methodological discussion.