Building the body beautiful

Matthews, Jill Julius

doi:10.1080/08164649.1987.9961563

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“…Social perception of the body, which is based on thinness and physical development, has been of vital importance in the development of masculine and feminine stereotypes (Matthews, 1987;Bordo, 1990;Hall, 1996). Research about the concept of body dimension in teenagers is the key to establishing conceptual differences between boys and girls (Davies & Harre, 1989;Kirk, 1999).…”

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The social construction of gender in Spanish physical education students

Ravé

Pérez

Poyatos

2007

Sport, Education and Society

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The social construction of gender in Spanish physical education students

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Pérez

Poyatos

2007

Sport, Education and Society

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“…After heated debate during the 1930s, the model of beauty for women who wished to take part in physical education. (rather than in sports education) was that of the young and well muscled, and corresponded perhaps to the beginning of the requirement for corporeal standardisation and uniformity (see Matthews, 1987). The extensive writings on physical education provide ample evidence that this imagery had become accepted "social fact".…”

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Images of women in literature on physical education and sport: Representations of social transformation in France under the third republic, 1870-1939

Gleyse

Garcia

Canal

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Sport, Education and Society

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Writings on "the female" under the Third Republic in France provide evidence of the profound changes taking place in the social representation of femininity and masculinity during the period. They correspond to dramatic changes in the socioeconomic context in parallel with those in the scientific models being used to describe human bodily movement. This paper sets out to demonstrate both the structure of the discussion on femininity and the practice of exercise, and the possible links with changes in women's education and their social position in France. It attempts to go beyond the traditional analysis of the historical relationships between women and exercise in the period under examination (1870-1939). It reviews the debates on these relationships taking place at the time in France and within the state education system during the Third Republic and focuses on three specific aspects: work, school and society.

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“…Social perception of the body, which is based on thinness and physical development, has been of vital importance in the development of masculine and feminine stereotypes (Hall, 1996;Matthews, 1987).…”

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Visual methodologies, physical activity and young people’s. (Metodologías visuales, actividad física y construcción del cuerpo por los jóvenes).

Ruíz-Pérez¹,

Gonzáles-Ravé²

2012

rev. int. cienc. deporte

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The purpose of this article has been to analyze the use of photo elicitation research as a research methodology in Physical Culture Studies, with a special emphasis in Physical Activity contexts and the role of this visual methodology in order to understand the social construction of body and gender among children in physical education. The physical self-image and how others perceive the body make a huge difference when social interaction is taking place, since there is a hegemonic model or image of the body, and it is widespread in society. Psychologists, teachers in general and physical educators need to pay more attention to both how adolescent girls’ cultural perspectives contribute to their sense of self and how important is to provide girls with many opportunities to analyze and stimulate critique discursive practices that shape embodied subjectivity. All of them should be aware of their relevant role as agents of cultural change and reproducers of sociocultural trends and so select both the most appropriate curriculum and content to eliminate the existing stereotypical views.

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El propósito de este artículo ha sido analizar el empleo de la fotografía como instrumento investigador y metodológico en estudios sobre Cultura Física, con un énfasis especial en los contextos de actividad física, así como el papel de las metodologías visuales para comprender la construcción social del cuerpo y del género entre la educción física escolar. Tanto la propia imagen física, como la forma en que otros perciben el cuerpo se ve muy influida en las situaciones de interacción social, ya que existe un modelo hegemónico, o imagen del cuerpo, que está muy extendido en la sociedad. Psicólogos, educadores en general y profesores de educación física deben prestar más atención a estas cuestiones y a como la perspectiva cultural que tienen las adolescentes contribuye a dar sentido a su yo, y hasta qué punto es importante ofrecerles oportunidades para analizarlas y estimular la crítica discursiva que configure su subjetividad corporal. Todos ellos tienen que ser conscientes de su papel como agentes culturales de cambio y reproductores de tendencias socioculturales, para con ello seleccionar el currículum y los contendidos más apropiados para eliminar las visiones estereotipadas de estas cuestiones que existen en la actualidad.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5232/ricyde2012.0280

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Building the body beautiful

Cited by 46 publications

References 4 publications

The social construction of gender in Spanish physical education students

The social construction of gender in Spanish physical education students

Images of women in literature on physical education and sport: Representations of social transformation in France under the third republic, 1870-1939

Visual methodologies, physical activity and young people’s. (Metodologías visuales, actividad física y construcción del cuerpo por los jóvenes).

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