Costa, Maria Helena Braga e Vaz da2015-10-272015-10-272008COSTA, Maria Helena Braga e Vaz da. Mulheres partidas: poética e política das imagens fílmicas da mulher. Bagoas: Revista de Estudos Gays, Natal-RN, v. 2, n. 3, p. 97, 2008. ISSN:1982-0518. Disponível em: <http://periodicos.ufrn.br/bagoas/article/view/2285/1718> Acesso em: 27/05/20151982-0518https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/19339This paper thinks about the ways in which the image of women has been built by the cinema through the years, giving meaning to narratives of life experience (in reality) and representations (film narrative), that constitute and transform the collective imagination about modernity and the role played by women within the socio, cultural and representation systems. Discussing about the role played by women in films this paper analyses women's representation within the context of contemporary Brazilian cinema in two examples: Daniel Filho's A Dona da História (2004) e Mara Mourão's Avassaladoras (2002).porAcesso AbertoGêneroMulherCinema brasileiroarticle