2018-04-252018-04-252002-12FONSECA, Pedro Carlos. Retórica e política sexual na conquista da América: tropologias do discurso do gênero. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 14, n. 1, p. 115-128, jan./dez. 2002. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/7309/5175>.0103-7250http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/14639Through the perspective of feminist criticism, this study examines some aspects of the representation of the feminine image as well as its tropological process of feminilization. Being this phenomenon characteristic of the European patriarcal discourse, it is strategically found in the first texts that registered the discovery and conquest of America. The study still aims to make clear that, in that type of discourse representing the American reality, some figuralities and the manipulation of a forged image of the Amerindian, as the sexual other, were based on simbolic and ideological constructions which in an argumentative and rhetorical manner aimed to preserve a sexual politics. Such formations came to correspond to a socio-cultural and historical complex which, finally, had as its goal to mantain philosophical and pragmatic prerrogatives of the androcentric hegemony characteristic of the dominat European male mentality. Forming a part of his civilizational tradition, this mentality was disseminated also in the modern times.porAcesso AbertoDescobrimento e conquistaDiscurso do gêneroRetórica e política sexualDiscovery and conquestGender discourseRhetoric and sexual politicsArtigo10.5216/sig.v14i1.7309