In the cultural upheaval of the 1920s, Canadians became particularly invested in looking at and debating women???s images in public. This dissertation looks at how English-Canadians debated, accepted, and challenged modernity through public images of women. In analysing the debates over cultural rituals of looking it seeks to show how the discussions about images reveal the power of vision in ordering and understanding modernity as well as social and cultural changes. Through five case studies on the flapper, the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation, two beauty contests, an art exhibition including nudes, and the relationship between film and automobiles this study reveals how important images of the body were to the cultural developments and debates on the post-World War One modern world. By the 1920s urban visual culture was dominated by various images of women and an analysis of those images and the debates around them reveal underlying tensions related to gender, class, age, social order, and race. Anxieties over changes in these areas were absorbed into the broader concerns over the pleasures and perils associated with being modern. This dissertation looks at Canadian visual culture in terms of what it can reveal about modernity and the problems, perils, and pleasures associated with it.

In the cultural upheaval of the 1920s, Canadians became particularly invested in looking at and debating women’s images in public. This dissertation looks at how English-Canadians debated, accepted, and challenged modernity through public images of women. In analysing the debates over cultural rituals of looking it seeks to show how the discussions about images reveal the power of vision in ordering and understanding modernity as well as social and cultural changes. Through five case studies on the flapper, the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation, two beauty contests, an art exhibition including nudes, and the relationship between film and automobiles this study reveals how important images of the body were to the cultural developments and debates on the post-World War One modern world. By the 1920s urban visual culture was dominated by various images of women and an analysis of those images and the debates around them reveal underlying tensions related to gender, class, age, social order, and race. Anxieties over changes in these areas were absorbed into the broader concerns over the pleasures and perils associated with being modern. This dissertation looks at Canadian visual culture in terms of what it can reveal about modernity and the problems, perils, and pleasures associated with it.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Andrade de Almeida.pdf: 53477216 bytes, checksum: 2c8384b4b769daba2dee2a5485a9d636 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-07 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo / In the early twentieth century, the city of Fortaleza wanted to be modern and developed, such as Rio de Janeiro or even Paris. Shops, services and people expressed this desire in a cultural, social and sensitive movement that also models the bodies. The visibility and the trial of appearances become more stringent while new freedoms, questions and speeches are invented. Fortaleza is contextualized in a circuit of practices, values and products related to the body aesthetics in the country, with its particularities, and not just general characteristics observed in other Brazilian cities at that time. A reflection about the modernity in the city necessarily requires this understanding of body condition. In the city, body patterns and appearances are articulated, as well born and well-nourished women or slaughtered sertanejos arriving in Fortaleza. In newspapers, magazines, advertisements, almanacs, albums, literature and memoir reports analyzed, the themes of beauty and ugliness become increasingly relevant and indicate concerns, feelings and tensions unknown until then. The female body gradually becomes the center of the problems - not only medical and aesthetic but linked to issues such as personality and social place. Cultural and historical production of notions of beauty and ugliness is therefore the main topic of the thesis, which seeks to historicize the specificities and complexities of the female body invention in Fortaleza, mobilizing the relationship between beauty and ugliness. It is proposed to investigate that urban dynamic forms in Fortaleza would have favored the emergence of a set of practices, products, wishes and circulation of ideas that affect the bodies and produce the notions of beauty and ugliness. A second axis which crosses the first is the assumption that beauty and ugliness were not limited to what you saw, trying to realize the construction of the sense of the appearances convening elements from the sensitive and the subjectivities / Nas primeiras décadas do século XX, a cidade de Fortaleza cultivava o desejo de ser moderna e desenvolvida, tal como o Rio de Janeiro ou mesmo Paris. Comércios, serviços e as pessoas expressavam essa vontade em um movimento cultural, social e sensível que igualmente modela os corpos. Os olhares sobre eles e as aparências se tornam mais rigorosos ao mesmo tempo que novas liberdades, contrições e discursos são inventados. Fortaleza se contextualiza em um circuito de práticas, valores e produtos ligados à estética corporal no País, com suas particularidades, e não apenas características gerais observadas em outras cidades brasileiras naquele momento. O aprofundamento das questões ligadas à modernidade passa necessariamente pelo entendimento da condição corporal, e é na cidade que convivem vários modelos de corpo e de aparências, seja o das mulheres bem nascidas e bem nutridas ou dos sertanejos emagrecidos que fogem da seca e chegam a Fortaleza. Nos jornais, revistas, propagandas, almanaques, álbuns de vistas, na literatura e nos relatos de memorialistas analisados, os temas do embelezamento e da fealdade se tornam cada vez mais pertinentes e indicam preocupações, sentimentos e tensões desconhecidos até então. O corpo se torna progressivamente o centro dos problemas não somente médicos e estéticos, mas ligados a questões como a personalidade e o lugar social de cada um. A produção cultural e histórica das noções de beleza e feiura constitui, portanto, o tema principal da tese, que busca historicizar as especificidades e complexidades da invenção do corpo feminino em Fortaleza, mobilizando as relações entre beleza e fealdade. Interessa investigar de que formas as dinâmicas urbanas em Fortaleza teriam favorecido o aparecimento de um conjunto de práticas, produtos, desejos e circulações de ideias que afetaram os corpos e produziram as noções de beleza e feiura. Um segundo eixo, que atravessa o primeiro, é a suposição de que beleza e fealdade não se atinham ao que se via, procurando perceber na construção dos sentidos das aparências a convocação de elementos da ordem do sensível e das subjetividades

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata Pires Pinto.pdf: 3524528 bytes, checksum: 9612529ec2869b943e3f0cf201419363 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-06 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research discusses the women body as a symbolic construction, focusing on the interference that the print and audiovisual vehicles had at the manufacture a national identity, reinforcing the stereotype of well shapely bodies, bearing a kind of natural sensuality and sexuality of Brazilian women. The main purpose of this text is to identify and analyze on advertising vehicles, produced for foreign audiences, what are the speeches about woman bodies, which historically asserted the Brazilian woman stereotype. To do so, is used as primary source the advertising materials produced by Embratur (Brazilian Institute of Tourism), the official governmental institute that is responsible on promoting Brazilian tourism to foreign tourists as well as materials produced by companies that are related to Embratur. It s intent to unfold part of the historical construction of this feminine image and how the Brazilian woman image was linked into the tourism industry in advertising materials. Assuming that the cultural analysis of the female body emerges as an important issue in the field of humanities, the focus on body image can be viewed as a key element in discussions about the construction of identities, in a way to problematize the idea of a fixed and essentialized female identity, demonstrating that this stereotype is not enough to define the woman category nowadays / A presente dissertação de mestrado busca analisar o corpo enquanto uma construção simbólica, focando na interferência que a mídia impressa e os veículos audiovisuais tiveram nos processos de construção de identidade de mulheres na sociedade brasileira, reforçando estereótipos corporais e corpotamentais, tais como a sexualidade e a sensualidade exacerbadas.A proposta desta pesquisa é de identificar e analisar em veículos de grande circulação, voltados para o público estrangeiro, quais foram os discursos (imagéticos e textuais), que historicamente alimentaram e resignificaram a construção desta imagem sobre os corpos brasileiros. Para tanto, utilizo como fonte principal os materiais de mídia produzidos pela Embratur (Instituto Brasileiro do Turismo), órgão oficial que se concentra no marketing e na promoção de produtos, serviços e destinos turísticos brasileiros no exterior assim como fontes de outras mídias turísticas vinculadas a ele. Pretende-se compreender a construção histórica desta imagem feminina e como ela foi vinculada nos materiais promocionais do turismo. Entendendo a análise cultura do corpo como importante tema para as ciências humanas, o foco na corporalidade pode vir a ser uma chave nas discussões acerca dos processos de construção identitária, problematizando-se, assim, a ideia de uma identidade feminina fixa e essencializada, demonstrando que esse estereótipo não dá conta de definir a categoria mulher nos dias de hoje

In this dissertation, I argue that from the late 1940s to the late 1970s, the Jewish community of Montreal underwent a series of changes that significantly altered its character. And while increasing numbers of Jews from all over the world began arriving on the island, the established elites reacted by creating and then entrenching a new cultural orthodoxy based on their own practices and values. Jewish women were fundamental to this process, as both objects of the new cultural discourse as well as active participants. Understanding the process through which a "Jewish community of Montreal" group was created requires a consideration of both public and private ethnic signifiers, so an analysis of the construction of gender norms for Jewish women is key. This dissertation will track these fractured dialogues through an analysis of currents of thought and discussion among Jewish individuals living in Montreal between 1945 and 1980. I will accomplish this through a comparison of both textual documents and oral interviews. In sum, I will examine how dominant discourses are constructed by elites, and how they are in turn experienced by the women themselves. / Graduate

A reflective essay to accompany the thesis exhibition, the Wanderer, installed in the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, 2013. An exploration of the questions and concepts informing the process of developing and refining the visual vocabulary of my practice. Images of women, topographical maps, floral imagery and astronomical maps provide the vocabulary of the language and syntax that I am developing to enunciate the interrelationships between the construction of self and lived experience, with concepts of identity, body and gesture, history and place.

Orientador: Carmen Lucia Soares / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T12:17:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosa_MariaCristina_D.pdf: 9407245 bytes, checksum: 1e66a2d47acc2030e3f644283471ca97 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Sendo as Minas Gerais uma sociedade na qual se operam múltiplas trocas, mudanças, trânsitos, esta pesquisa busca compreender processos de educação dos corpos a partir dos divertimentos, e circunscreve, como seu objeto, modos de educar, de se divertir, de adoecer e de curar. Numa sociedade que se configura pela aparência, que considera importante ter, mas fundamental ser, em que a vida exemplar é norma, o corpo destaca-se. Estado e Igreja, principais instâncias de poder, estabelecem uma política moralizadora e civilizadora que almeja ordenar o bem comum, estabelecer um modelo de civilidade. Atuam, pois, na busca do controle de práticas em que a vigilância impera. Tendo como pressuposto básico a idéia de que o universo cultural que se configura não se restringe ao modelo europeu e de que nem sempre se prende aos valores, gestos e costumes de africanos, indígenas e europeus, caracterizando-se por hibridações, permeabilidades e permanências, esta pesquisa procura compreender a dinamicidade dos corpos na comarca de Vila Rica. Apoiada em fontes, como iconografia, literatura e documentos, explora o terreno das normas em que o controle e direcionamento da vida diária estabelecem maneiras e modos de proceder, formas de educação dos corpos. Além disso, destaca o âmbito das contravenções, por transgressões, delitos e desvios. Tensionando esses dois pólos, a pesquisa tenta compreender como as pessoas se aproximam ou afastam dos padrões e ainda como os reinventam: caminhos e descaminhos. Para isso, desenvolve o entendimento de educação que, no seu sentido pleno, remete ao governo dos costumes, na época marcados pela desproporção entre brancos e negros, sendo estes a maioria. Buscou-se, assim, compreender a idéia de educar o outro, no sentido polissêmico que o termo abarca, lidando com bons e maus tratos, com o homem branco e com o escravo e seus descendentes. Daí a razão de serem considerados processos educativos da Igreja, de pais e senhores, entre outros, como também de investigar mudanças no espaço físico, uma vez que ambos, corpo e espaço, neste tempo e local, sofrem significativas intervenções de reestruturação que almejam ordenamento e limpeza, mediante alterações em sua superfície, nos invólucros. No âmbito da diversão, destacam-se os descaminhos, embora o princípio da racionalização das práticas predomine e o econômico reja a vida cultural e norteie ações, como descanso, ciência, divertimento e tratos dos corpos. Esse enfoque da diversão traz, entre suas conseqüências, a tentativa de institucionalização de práticas, principalmente de negros e descendentes, ação que reclama intervenções e estratégias múltiplas, controle e disciplina dos corpos. No entanto, lícitos ou não, locais e formas de diversão que se manifestam em práticas culturais, como jogos, festas, danças, batizados e batuques, realizados em ruas, igrejas, vendas e casas de alcouce, traduzem tempo e espaço de trânsito, sociabilidade, permissividade, publicidade, desordem e banimento, pronunciam-se, especialmente, pelos desvios. Portanto prazeres, regalos, deleites, ainda que lícitos, devem ser vigiados. Para além das normas, transgressões e tentativas de controle, depara-se com as doenças. Extremamente atreladas, diversão e doenças manifestam-se em diferentes práticas e discursos, em que são também associadas ao vício e ao pecado / Abstract: Being Minas Gerais a society that carries out numerous exchanges, changes, circulation, this research tries to understand the proceedings of education of the bodies from the amusement on and circumscribes as its object, ways of educating amusing, falling ill and curing. In a society represented by the appearance that it considers important having, but fundamental being, in which the exemplary life is rule, the body stands out. State and the Church, the most important resorts of power, established a moralizing and civilizing politic that longs for arranging the common well-being establishing a civility model. They act, then, looking for the control of habits in which reigns vigilance. Being the basic presupposition the idea that the cultural universe presented is not limited to the European one and that it is not always caught to the values, gests and the African habits, native and European, characterized by hibridation, permeabilities and staying, this research tries to understand the bodies¿ dynamism in Vila Rica. Supported in sources such as iconography, literature and documents, it explores the rule¿s area where the control of daily¿s life establishes manners and ways to proceed, ways to educate the bodies. In addition, it stands out the contraventions through transgressions, crimes and deviations. Having this two subjects in mind, the research tries to understand how people get closer to or distant from the standards and how they reinvent them: ways and deways. It develops the understanding of education that appeals to the government of the habits, at that time marked by disproportion between white and black people, where the black ones were the majority. This way, the research tempted to understand the idea of educating the others, including good and ill treatment, with the white man and the black slaves and their descendants. That¿s why not only educational procedures of the church, parents and landlords should be considered, but also the investigation of the changes in the physical space, because body and space, at that time and at that space, suffer significant interventions of restructuration that longs for order and cleanliness through suface¿s alterations, in the wrappers. Having the amusement as the scope, the deways stand out even though the rationing of these practices were predominant and the economic aspect directed cultural life and guided actions like relaxation, science, amusement and bodies traits. This view of amusement brings, as a consequence, the effort to institute practices, especially between black people and their descendants, an action that calls for interventions and numerous strategies, control and bodies discipline. Nevertheless, permitted or not, places and ways of amusement showed in cultural practices, such as games, parties, dances, baptisms and throbs, held in the streets, churches, stores and prostitution houses translates time and space, sociability, permissivity, publicity, disorder and banishment are showed especially by deviation. Then, pleasure, entertainment and delights, even being permitted, should be watched. Further on rules, transgressions and control tries, illnesses are present. Extremely linked, amusement and diseases are showed in different practices and speeches, in which are also associated to vice and sin / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutor em Educação

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