Cuerpos, mujeres y narrativas: Imaginando corporalidades y géneros

Begonya Enguix Grau; Ana María González Ramos

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.1956

Bodies, Women and Narratives: Imagining Corporealities and Genders

Authors

Begonya Enguix Grau Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5020-9019
Ana María González Ramos IN3/UOC

Abstract

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 mean- ings 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.

Keywords

Female Bodies, Beauty, Gender, Free Narratives

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Author Biographies

Begonya Enguix Grau, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Begonya Enguix (benguix@uoc.edu) es profesora agregada de los Estudios de Artes y Humanidades (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona). Es licenciada en Antropología Social y Cultural (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), licenciada en Publicidad (Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) y doctora en Antropología Urbana (Universitat Rovira i Virigili, Tarragona). Ha participado en diversos proyectos de investigación sobre migraciones, antropología del cuerpo, género, amor e identidades digitales, entre otros. Es miembro del grupo de investigación en Antropología del Cuerpo (ICA), del grupo de investigación Mediaccions@Digital Culture, y del grupo de investigación en Antropología Social (URV). Sus ámbitos de investigación son los géneros, cuerpos, sexualidades e identidades, y la antropología urbana y digital.

Ana María González Ramos, IN3/UOC

Ana M. González Ramos is Coordinator of the GENTIC: Gender and ICT Relationships in Knowledge Society, consolidated research Group of Catalonia (2014SGR1199) at the IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Previously, she was associate professor in the Universidad de La Laguna and the Universidad de Cádiz (Spain). In the last years, she has conducted various competitive projects regarding women in technology careers. She also has written several articles and chapters of books related to women’s careers in academia and entreprises. She was a visiting scholar in PREST Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Institut für Hörere Studien of Vienna, Escola de Servico Social in Universidad Católica de Pelotas (Brasil) and Department of Sociology of the Universidad de La Habana (Cuba).