Mapeando os corpos femininos na história do tempo presente: diálogos e representações

Abstract

This thesis rises from a restlessness considering the social representations of the female body in History of Present Time, concept that not only holds the immediacy of facts, but to articulation between past, present and future. Taking from Maieutics and having as theoretic basis the social representations, the argumentation that references the ideas here exposed, part of an essayistic work turned to the concept of emancipation as well as the concept of subordination, on the bodily experiences of the feminine body. In order to do so, harbored in an interdisciplinary work, guided in the fields of Medicine, Anthropology, History, Analytic Psychology, Sociology, Ethics and Philosophy – the research pinpoints as its main objective, to investigate if the contemporary Brazilian woman’s body, facing the conquers reached mainly in the last six decades, has been acting as one of the pillars of the autonomy of the “self”, or as a factor of annulment, staring the social, cultural, media and aesthetic boundaries. Methodological, epistemological, and somewhat deontological problems were pondered with basis on the thought that in human species there are males and females, if this distinction is fruit of natural realities, social realities or both. Such questions, were articulated, were fixed as reference to ideas defended by Carole Pateman (1993) and Heleieth B. Saffioti (2001, 2011), regarding the persistency of patriarchy, and Judith Butler’s (2010) assumptions, and Beatriz Preciado (2008), among other authors which pore over gender, sexuality and performances studies. With the same value, the critics of consumerist society, inserted in the integrated social spectacle, in Guy Debord’s ideas (1997), were relevant analysis points, in this plural work, that while moving between tyranny of images and submission of feminine bodies, brought to reflection the power exercised by the media over the investigated object, hence fetichism.