Cultivando cuerpos, modelando masculinidades

The present work explores the relationships between body, gender and sexuality and analyzes how the discourses on particular bodies are constructed in everyday life. We do so through the analysis of advertising images, of photographs from our own fieldwork, through the narratives evoked by them and...

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Autor: Enguix, Begonya
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/92224
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10609/92224
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:masculinidad
género
representación
hegemonía
masculinitat
gènere
representació
masculinity
gender
representation
hegemony
Masculinity
Masculinitat
Masculinidad
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Resumo:The present work explores the relationships between body, gender and sexuality and analyzes how the discourses on particular bodies are constructed in everyday life. We do so through the analysis of advertising images, of photographs from our own fieldwork, through the narratives evoked by them and also through data obtained during in-depth interviews. Through the analysis of the discursive codes and the conventions of masculinity, we examine the close association between body, gender and sexuality. The masculine body is constructed through marking elements of the sexual otherness and gender that are strongly linked to the body (like gender-crossing and hypergenderization) and that expose the limits of genders and bodies, showing how the latter are constructed and acquire meaning in particular contexts. These processes give rise to the formation of dominant models and counter-models with a strong gender component which maintain and/or resist the male model of beauty.