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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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[en] ON THE INTOLERABLE WEIGHT OF UGLINESS: BODY, SOCIABILITY AND SOCIAL REGULATION / [pt] SOBRE O INTOLERÁVEL PESO DA FEIÚRA: CORPO, SOCIABILIDADE E REGULAÇÃO SOCIAL

JOANA DE VILHENA NOVAES 23 December 2004 (has links)
[pt] A partir da década de 80 o corpo passou a ser tema da moda, objeto de preocupação dos estudiosos e fonte de angústia para as mulheres. Em uma sociedade onde o corpo, além de objeto de consumo, passa a ser lócus privilegiado da construção identitária feminina, a relação com o próprio corpo acaba por tornar-se desprazerosa e persecutória. O presente trabalho busca explicitar como as atitudes em relação à feiúra, quer seja ver-se feio ou atribuir feiúra ao outro, revelam mudanças na forma de lidar com o corpo, que por sua vez produzem vínculos sociais até então não evidenciados. Tomando a gordura como o paradigma da feiúra, três práticas de intervenção corporal são utilizadas como pesquisa de campo a fim de ilustrar os recurso utilizados pelas mulheres para escaparem do que consideram a feiúra. São elas: as academias de ginástica, as cirurgias plásticas e as cirurgias bariátricas. A autora ressalta como a imagem da mulher e do feminino continua associada à da beleza, havendo cada vez menos tolerância para os desvios nos padrões estéticos socialmente estabelecidos. A feiúra, associada à gordura, é, segundo as entrevistadas uma das mais presentes formas de exclusão social feminina. / [en] From the eighties on, body awareness became a fashion, an academic theme, as well as a major source of anxiety for women. In a society, where in addition of being seen as merchandise, the body is more than ever, the privileged locus of identitary construction. Facing such unattainable goals and such impossible ideals, women are due to have a very anxious and persecutory relationship with their own bodies.The thesis deals with the prejudice which ugly women are faced with. Associated with fatness, ugliness became one of the worst socially tolerated forms of prejudice. Historically associated with beauty, women are the ones who suffer the most. The author points out how socially acceptable it became to discriminate ugly people. The study is based on a field research where three body practices are examined: gym academies, plastic surgery and bariatric surgery Taking obesity or mere fatness as the paradigm of ugliness, the author points out how intolerant society became of those who deviate from what the body culture has established as normal.

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