Cuerpos, mujeres y narrativas: Imaginando corporalidades y géneros

In this work we consider that bodies are individual, social and symbolic producers of discourses about identity. Through the exploration of the connections between bodies, gender meanings and sexualities, we aim to unveil the values and meanings of gender that we associate to feminine bodies; we als...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Enguix, Begonya, González Ramos, Ana M.
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repository:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/93243
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/93243
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:narraciones libres
cuerpos femeninos
belleza
género
narracions lliures
cossos femenins
bellesa
gènere
free narratives
female bodies
beauty
gender
Gender identity
Identitat sexual
Identidad sexual
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Summary:In this work we consider that bodies are individual, social and symbolic producers of discourses about identity. Through the exploration of the connections between bodies, gender meanings and sexualities, we aim to unveil the values and meanings of gender that we associate to feminine bodies; we also aim to analyze the referential categories for the configuration and interpretation of bodies and for our understandings of women's beauty and sensuality. For that purpose, we have used a gallery of images depicting women taken from different magazines. We use that gallery to elicit narratives on the images. The narratives we have worked with show that women's discourses are now merging traditional and non-traditional ideas about feminine bodies and sexualities that illustrate the way how we build, perform and interpret gender in its relation to embodiment, sexuality, and beauty canons.