The symbolic universe of the obese woman / O universo simbólico da mulher obesa

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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This work intends to investigate the symbolic universe of the obese women. Taking as a component of this universe, the relation between culture and tendencies, we analyze how the social conduct, regarding the obese woman, confer to them a stigmatizing condition represented by social exclusion. In a society that has validated the skinny women as a desirable standard, more than that, associated the beauty with the constitution of the female identity, the dismissal of the feeling of belonging, experienced by these women, causes a major change in the way of representing the subjectivity. Our intention is to collect these profiles, besides trying to understand the mechanisms that prevent the reversal of the condition of obesity, despite the cognitive domain that the interviewed have in relation to the matter. It is important to observe that despite the lipophobic social environment, with consequent damages to the sense of belonging, the weight loss is not, for these women, a priority, other than those suffering from eating disorders, as examined in this work. The methodology used was a story of a life of one of these women, because we believe that by reporting a personal story, the significant episodes reflect the imagination of the collectiveness beyond the individual. Besides investigating the representation of obese women in relation to their physical appearance, this study suggests the needing of an investigation in the profiles of professionals who work for the reversal of this condition, with the intentions to propose more effective interventions in the treatments and social conducts.

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obesity stigma woman mulher estigma simbólico obesidade symbolic

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