Soñar el cuerpo. Acercamiento al modelo ideal de cuerpo femenino en Occidente

Abstract

The people’s body is product and image from the Culture they belong - Western Culture, Eastern Culture, African, Indigenous Culture, etc. -, it derived of its political, economic and social practices that use mass media and Fashion to promote the adoption of this. This work has investigated the western feminine - dominant- ideal body, the social theory around the body and some of the daily practices used for its intervention by means of the bibliographical revision and the ethnography. From our birth it begins a process of enculturation of the body, through a little subtle learning. The massive media offer us unceasingly, images of the body that we should have, they present us a beautiful, healthy, perfect body,... according to the fashion practices of the moment and the Culture. Concluding that the body is an abstraction to which we should aspire and to work to try to achieve it, and this message is reinforced by different social environments: family and friends, doctors and institutions, by own and strangers.