Corpo e identidade feminina / Body and feminine identity
AUTOR(ES)
Mirela Berger
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2006
RESUMO
The work has as objective to perceive and to understand as the Brazilian women of upper-middle class and urban (from 1990) they think the construction of its auto-image, which the corporal models that influence this process, as well as the corporal techniques to reach them. The analysis axles are the corporal representations, since one of the hypotheses central offices of the project is that through the analysis of the ideal of body pursued for the women, either possible to have access all a system of perception not only of itself, but also of the world of which these women are part, since the body can be seen as a microcosm and certifies a social mark. The work investigates the relations between corporalidade and identity for the women of the sample, questioning, among others things, if the attainment of a specific body is, in the perception of the women, basic so that these if feel owners of a style of specific life and a social belonging. It investigates the importance of the media in this process, as well as the perigos of the cult to the body, arguing and alerting, among others aspects, for the alimentary riots.
ASSUNTO(S)
corpo; culto ao corpo; identidade feminina; mídia; representações corporais; técnicas corporais body; corporal representations; corporal techniques; cult of the body; feminine identity; media
