Análise de sentidos da magreza: a representação do corpo feminino na capa da revista Modalité (nº 153)

Abstract

This final project presents some ways to produce meanings about the body image from a bibliographic review based on studies by authors in many fields and the presentation of this slimness on the suggested magazine cover. According to these authors, the body is constructed socially and is modeled through social conventions will reproduce the slimness meanings on the modern society. The body materializes the subject vs. society relationship, reflecting the dialogue between biology and symbolism with regard to constructing subjectivity, because subjectivation processes are built in direct relationship with the body, and after that do a link of what was written before about the construction of slimness meanings on the cover number 153 of MODAlité’s magazine.