Corpos, Narrativas e Imagens do Gênero Masculino na revista Men s Health

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Josimar Faria
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3393
• topic: Masculinidade; Corpo; Mídias; Representações; Masculinity; Body; Media; Representations; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA DOMESTICA

This paper aims to problematize the male body representations meant by repetition and ritualization of discourse ― the pleasure of being a man ", issued by the magazine Men's Health. Seeks to detect, define and analyze a way of styling the body where muscle hypertrophy is configured as a symbolic space of masculine identity, which produces meanings, meanings and effects of domination, which when added to other traditional forms to submit to social pathologizing people. Having said that, we define the objective of understanding how men who care about the bodily forms construct images of themselves and for themselves, as well as outline the social and cultural elements that influence their views. Thus, we sought to examine how individuals (re) establish, (re) mean and (re) interpret as their social and cultural interests, bodily images that circulate today. To this end, we considered the importance of body images that circulate through the print media in the socialization of gender subjectivity and process. We use a methodology to narrate such images. Our challenge was to make these images were not treated as specimens of a context, but as a field of analysis. Therefore, it is worth asking: what body images are considered" perfect " in print for males ? How to achieve a socially acceptable body? Since these images reverberate in everyday some readers? The results show that body image can be understood as important educational segment disseminating ideas of a type of masculinity that assimilates the condition of identity linked to muscular bodies.