Discoursive Corporality in Women’s Magazines: a study of editorials

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  • Adriana Braga

Keywords:

Gender Feminine. Feminine Body. Women’s Magazines.

Abstract

This paper issues the institution of an idealized pattern of feminine body operated on the discourses of “women’s magazines”. Such definition of meanings is analysed through the editorial texts of four titles of women’s magazines issued between September, 2001 and February, 2002, in which the construction of the cover girl photograph is made explicit as a discoursive strategy, actualizing discoursively a definition of an “ideal” female body. So, once this process plays a part and reinforces cultural patterns previously extant, I articulate this discursive phenomenon to a more general concern, that of the social definition of gender roles in our society.

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Author Biography

Adriana Braga

Bacharel em Psicologia pela Faculdade de Ciências Humanas (FCH), da Fundação Mineira de Educação e Cultura (FUMEC); bolsista do CNPq do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)

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Published

2006-12-09

How to Cite

BRAGA, Adriana. Discoursive Corporality in Women’s Magazines: a study of editorials. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 9, n. 1, p. 109–120, 2006. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/64. Acesso em: 29 aug. 2025.

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2003)

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Copyright (c) 2003 Adriana Braga

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