Corpo feminino na noite: o laboratório sociocultural da pós-mulher

Abstract

This thesis argues that the current gender debate leads us to the recognition of the post woman existence. This notion refers to a cultural transformation that is happening in the “woman world” (TOURAINE, 2007) due to a saturation process of another cultural aspect, the male hegemony. As the night was seen as a sociocultural laboratory of this another woman, we notice that in contemporary society, with the decline of “the woman for the another” and the entry of “the woman for herself” (TOURAINE, 2007), we are witnessing the emergence of the pos woman that, by using the body production as instrument of seduction (BAUDRILLARD, 1991) and coquetry (SIMMEL, 2008c), also exerts relations of “female domination” (BAUDRILLARD, 1991). After going to field and conducting some semi-structured interviews, we noted that it is not possible for us to analyze the female body construction phenomenon only from the idea that the women produce themselves by and for the way other look at them (BOURDIEU, 1999). As it happened with Alain Touraine (2007, p. 64), “What we hear is different from what the most based speech offer us. The narratives pointed that this perspective represents only a constituent part of the relation of the woman with her body. However, in addition, the post women presented other elements that need to be described.