Bodies in the city: gender, material culture, and portraiture

• Autor(a) principal: de Lima, Solange Ferraz
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: de Carvalho, Vânia Carneiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/reh/article/view/3737
• topic: material culture; public space; photography; portraits; gender studies; ornamentation; cultura material; espaço público; fotografia; retratos; estudos de gênero; ornamentação

This paper discusses the material culture applied to the development of men's and women's public image, based on two different parameters: portraiture systems and urban spaces photographically registered. Backdrops, furniture (for interiors and exteriors) and, in particular, ornamental iron objects are seen as some of the supports that arrange bodily actions and the development of public and private spaces boundaries in the city of São Paulo during the transition from XIX to XX century. We try to demonstrate the amount of every day practices developed out of a (in many cases aphasiac and gender differentiated) sense of decorum materialistically formed.