Orientador: Guita Grin Debert / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T01:39:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio_AndreaTochiode_M.pdf: 1067282 bytes, checksum: c0a8e1291052e2e9577824ea1f135d3f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Esta Dissertação analisa a construção contemporânea dos padrões de beleza femininos, tendo como referência o ideal corrente de "supervalorização do corpo", por meio de uma das técnicas de sua produção: a cirurgia plástica de caráter estético. Para tanto, a pesquisa de campo foi realizada no Hospital das Clínicas da Unicamp, especificamente no Setor de Cirurgia Plástica tendo como objetivo a observação da dinâmica dos atendimentos qúe engloba as consultas pré e pós operatórias e os curativos pós-cirúrgicos. Entrevistas com pacientes e cirurgiões plásticos também foram realizadas, assim como o acompanhamento das cirurgias e de reuniões mensais onde os médicos residentes discutem os casos e dados científicos com os médicos responsáveis. Através da observação participante da pesquisadora a intenção foi apreender o cotidiano do Serviço de Cirurgia Plástica de um Hospital de ensino que é público e no qual, a princípio tal serviço é voltado para as camadas populares. Com isto, procura refletir acerca das concepções e significados do uso do corpo por parte de mulheres de classes populares, privilegiando as dimensões de classe social, faixa etária e gênero / Abstract: This essay provides an analysis of the construction of contemporary female beauty patterns, having as a reference the current ideal of "body super valorization" by means of one ofthe techniques used in producing results fitting such standards: the aesthetic plastic surgery. To achieve this, the field research was carried out at Unicamp's Hospital das Clinicas, specifically at the Plastic Surgery Division, having as the main objective to observe and study the dynamics of all procedures, including patient and physician interaction, the pre and post operative appointments, as well as the post-surgery removal of stitches and dressings. lnterviews with patients and the plastic surgeons were conducted. The actual surgeries and the monthly meetings where the resident ' doctors discussed the cases with the attending physicians, were also carefully observed.Through the participative observation, the researcher's goal was to learn about the daily activities and routine work of a PIas ti c Surgery division belonging to a public teaching hospital, in which its primary attention is aimed at citizens who cannot afford care at private health facilities. With all those data gathered, a discussion was done on the concepts and meanings of the female body usage by the working and poor classes, with special attention to social class, age group and gender / Mestrado / Sexualidade, Genero e Corpo / Mestre em Antropologia Social

This mini-thesis investigates some of the nineteenth century socio-cultural ideals that have structured a connection between virtuosic aerial skill and bodily aesthetics. It views the emergence of a style of aerial kineticism that is structured from the gender ideologies of the period. It investigates the continual recurrence of this nineteenth century style amongst contemporary aerial dance works and outlines the possible frictions between this Victorian style of kineticism and contemporary aerial explorations. From this observation, a possible catalyst may be observed with which to relocate and inspire a study of aerial kinetics sans the nineteenth century aesthetic component. This kinesiological catalyst may be viewed in conjunction with the theories of ground-based kinetic theorist, Rudolph Laban’s choreutic study of the body in space. Thus, it may be possible to suggest and introduce a possible practical dance scholarship for aerial dance. This mini-thesis includes an introductory choreological investigation that draws on and integrates the disciplines of kinesiology; choreutic theory; existing aerial kinetic technique; musicology; and the physical sciences.

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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Technology: Graphic Design, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2014. / The aim of this study was to investigate how images of women in the media that espouse women’s empowerment can indeed have the opposite effect and may even contribute to lowered self-esteem in women. To this end, this project is intended to explore issues such as body image and image manufacture in order to find a possible answer to the question of what is ‘real beauty’ in the South African context. A semiotic approach seeking to review the ways in which women are seen through visual communicative images was undertaken. This visual research revealed the importance of the ‘gendered gaze’ at the centre of issues that relate to self-esteem. An in-depth analysis of the literature, pertaining to self-esteem, interrogated the works of Naomi Wolf, John Berger and Susie Orbach, amongst others. This was carried out in order to understand more about how the dictates of consumerism pervade the work of the style industries. These sectors are well supported by the diet, food and cosmetic surgery industries who tend to effectively increase and add to a sense of body related insecurities. In addition, content analysis of selected South African editions of Cosmopolitan magazine was conducted. The images described represents a significant development period in the emergence of certain beauty ideals in South Africa. The British Unilever marketing campaign, The Dove Campaign For Real Beauty, was used as a base model for the applied design component of this study. In addition an action research approach was employed through a series of interviews and questionnaires directed at mostly female participants in South Africa. This method revealed that self-esteem issues have far reaching implications, affecting women of all ages. As a response to the perceived need for a South African based campaign, this research project informed the development of The Sisterhood Self-Esteem Crusade. In contrast to The Dove Campaign For Real Beauty which was created to promote increased sales of beauty products, The Sisterhood Self-Esteem Crusade’s focus is to interrogate and raise awareness of self-esteem. Underpinning this was an attempt to build confidence, cascade new ways of understanding and to propagate sense making, informed through action research, amongst South African women.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between exercise duration and level of disordered eating, physical self-esteem, and endorsement of societal mores about attractiveness. Two hundred twenty-nine female college students completed the Bulimia-Test Revised, the Physical Self Perception Profile, the Beliefs About Attractiveness Questionnaire, and a demographic questionnaire. Subjects were classified into one of four levels of exercise duration based on the number of hours they reported engaging in planned exercise per week. Significant differences were identified among the four exercise groups in relation to physical self-esteem. The amount of exercise activity individuals engaged in per week, however, was not indicative of their eating disorder symptomatology or beliefs about attractiveness.

The topic of this thesis is the issue of beauty perception among adolescent girls and influence of youtubers in this area. The aim of this thesis is to find out, how adolescent girls are constructing image of their own beauty and beauty in general and what role youtubers play in forming their opinion. The first part of this thesis is focused on theoretical knowledge, including maturation process, social and medial construct of beauty, opportunities of new media, youtubers and their audience and influencer marketing. The second part is centred around my own research, where half structured interviews were used. There are also formulated research questions and more information provided about the ethics of research, research sample and the method of analysis. The results of analysis are interpreted in detail and discussed further.

This dissertation explores the making of and research for the film, Fattitude, a social justice based documentary that looks to awaken viewers to the reality of weight bias in media representation. This dissertation reviews the filmmaking process and then engages with the nature of stereotypes about fat bodies. Deeply tied to feminist and fat studies theory, the work here seeks to categorize and shape the understanding of weight bias in the media by linking fat tropes to clearly understood images of oppression, for example the monstrous, the fool, they hypersexual and the asexual. The work also seeks to present theory on the nature of creating media representations of fatness that are not oppressive – making note of current media created by grassroots movements for body acceptance and fat positivity. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:20:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thais de Camargo Oliveira.pdf: 2439038 bytes, checksum: c1633e94bf8e2b7548b7c4260bb12537 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-19 / This study proposes an analysis of discourse about feminine beauty of a feminist blogs more accessible in Brazil, the Feminist bloggers, and aimed to identify the meanings produced about women s bodies and the social standards of beauty imposed by means of production analysis discourse of blog authors and comments raised throughout 2014. Therefore, as methodology, we used the theoretical framework of social constructionism, feminist theories, media and discursive practices, understanding, so the speech as action that produces and modifies reality through discursive interactions. The results indicate productions body senses and feminine beauty that materialize the mechanisms of social control, generating discourses of resistance and transgression, like, often to current feminist acadêmic discourses. / O presente estudo propõe uma análise dos discursos sobre beleza feminina de um dos blogs feministas mais acessados no Brasil, o Blogueiras Feministas, e objetivou identificar os sentidos produzidos sobre os corpos das mulheres e os padrões sociais de beleza impostos, por meio da análise da produção discursiva das autoras do blog e dos comentários suscitados ao longo de 2014. Para tanto, na metodologia, foram utilizados o arcabouço teórico do Construcionismo Social, das teorias feministas, de mídia e de práticas discursivas, entendendo, portanto, o discurso como ação que produz e modifica realidades por meio das interações discursivas. Os resultados indicam produções de sentidos de corpo e beleza feminina que materializam os mecanismos de controle social, gerando discursos de resistência e transgressão, semelhantes, muitas vezes, aos discursos acadêmicos feministas atuais.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:10:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Selma Peleias Felerico Garrini.pdf: 6213671 bytes, checksum: b5525ec2f4437c1eead0c4c4e2ca5173 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-13 / Considering that the newsmagazine Veja is a publication of general interest and of main circulation in Brazil and that it has also been a handbook of socio-cultural behaviour since the 1960s., we chose as the object of this research the image of the female body and its meanings liable to be analysed in the cover reports of Veja Magazine which deal with the cult of the body, since its creation on 11th September 1968 to 2010. Which is the image of the female body that Veja has edited in the course of its 42 years of existence? This is the problem we discuss in this work. Based on this topic, there are other questions which guide this investigation: Which bodies have been excluded by the magazine, from its creation in 1968 until nowadays? Which corporal marks and meanings are codified in the media discourse of Veja? Which corporal features does the magazine reveal and depict? The general objective is to analyse the aesthetic metamorphoses gone trough by the manners of dealing with the body in this weekly newsmagazine and also to verify the way in which the newsmagazine constructed its dialogue with its readers. The specific objectives are: to register and to categorize the different types of bodies which have been presented in Veja, since the beginning of its publication and to identify which models are left out. The central hypothesis of this research is the fact that in media discourse there is no ideal of standardized body, but an unshapely body, normalized by such discourse, in accordance with the social customs and the consumption practices of each period of history, taking into consideration that the corporal spectacularization of Brazilian society is depicted, dissected, observed and dictated by Veja. To accompany the alterations of the bodies and to identify the transforming signs of the feminine image in Brazilian society, the corpus is compounded of 56 Veja covers and the respective cover reports which have as a central subject matter the cult of the body. The methodology of the research went through the following order: bibliographical revision in order to select theoretical bases concerning the question which is proposed in this work and documentary research in order to analyse the images of the body. This work offers the possibility of contributing to the new body studies in the field of Communication and to the analysis of the meanings of the body and behaviour images in Brazil´ s recent history / Considerando que a revista Veja é publicação de interesse geral e de maior circulação no país e também um manual de conduta sociocultural, desde os anos de 1960, o objeto desta pesquisa é a imagem do corpo feminino e suas significações passíveis de serem analisadas nas reportagens de capa da revista Veja que tratam do culto ao corpo, desde sua criação em 11 de setembro de 1968 até 2010. Qual a imagem de corpo feminino que a Veja editou ao longo dos seus 42 anos de existência? Esse é o problema deste trabalho. A partir dai, tem-se outras questões que norteiam essa investigação: Que corpos foram excluídos pela revista, desde sua criação em 1968 até os dias atuais? Que marcas e significações corporais são codificadas no discurso midiático da Veja? Que traços corporais a revista reflete e retrata? O objetivo geral é analisar as metamorfoses estéticas nos modos de tratar o corpo neste semanário, verificando-se ainda como a revista construiu seu diálogo com o leitor. Os objetivos específicos são: registrar e categorizar os vários tipos de corpos apresentados na Veja, desde o início de sua publicação, e identificar quais modelos são deixados de lado. A hipótese central desta pesquisa é que no discurso midiático não há um ideal de corpo padronizado, mas um corpo ultramedido, normatizado por tal discurso, de acordo com os costumes sociais e as práticas de consumo de cada período da história, considerando que a espetacularização corporal da sociedade brasileira é retratada, dissecada, observada e ditada pela Veja. Para acompanhar as alterações dos corpos e identificar signos transformadores da imagem feminina na sociedade brasileira, o corpus é composto de 56 capas da Veja e as respectivas reportagens de capa que têm como tema central o culto ao corpo. A metodologia de trabalho percorreu a seguinte ordem: revisão bibliográfica a fim de selecionar bases teóricas sobre a questão proposta neste trabalho, além de pesquisa documental para análise das imagens do corpo. O trabalho tem a possibilidade de contribuir com os novos estudos do corpo na área de Comunicação e da análise das significações das imagens corporais e comportamentais da história brasileira recente

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-190).