Beautiful, maternal and feminine. Images of women in the Physical Education Review, by Silvana Goellner, Ijuí: Unijuí, 2003 (Physical Education collection)

Abstract

The book Beautiful, maternal and feminine. Images of women in the Physical Education Magazine is fruit of the doctoral thesis by Silvana Goellner as part of the Educational programme-UNICAMP-Campinas. Goellner, in an intelligent and original way, exhaustively explores the Physical Education Magazine which was issued in Brazil between 1932 and 1945. Initially, the author focuses on the period of time when the Physical Education Magazine was produced. Later, she raises the question: what is the place of Physical Education in that period of time? This way, her analysis is strongly centred on history and on the feminine body. Silvana Goellner sensitively sees on the pages of the publication three aixis that echo almost like a command of the "making" of the feminine body: be beautiful, be maternal and be feminine.