Problematizing the imposition of desirable female bodies in the stories of Monica Teen

• Autor(a) principal: Bastos, Sandra Nazaré Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Linhares, Marcos Allan da Silva, Silva, Lêda Valéria Alves da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da SBEnBIO
• Texto Completo: https://renbio.org.br/index.php/sbenbio/article/view/534
• topic: Ensino de Ciências; Análise do Discurso; Pedagogias Culturais; Relações de Gênero; Formação de Professores; Mídia; Processos de subjetivação; Estudos Culturais; Enseñanza de la ciencia; Análisis del habla; Pedagogías culturales; Relaciones de género; Formación de profesores; Medios de comunicación; Procesos de subjetivación; Estudios culturales; Science teaching; Speech analysis; Cultural Pedagogies; Gender relations; Teacher training; Media; Subjectivation processes; Cultural Studies

The objective of this work is to analyze speeches that produce the abnormal female body in the comic books Monica Teen. We use theoretical tools proposed by Michel Foucault to analyze how “overweight” female characters are shown. We found that the plots trigger  female and male genders differently and although they raise issues such as bullying and image distortion, they reinforce stereotypes that we conventionally associate with the fat body. When discussing how we teach the body in Biology classes, we suggest that it is necessary to denaturalize the assemblages that reinforce body standardization as a goal. It is necessary to invest in an education of ecdyses and teaching paths that lead us to refuse prescriptions that daily impose uniform ways of being people.