Women on Movement: female images in the Physical Education Review

Abstract

T his paper addresses diferent images of the woman's body. More specifically, it refers to
the corporal and sportive practices, as well as to the visibility of the feminine body in the
30s and 40s of this century. It discloses some political, economical and cultural
modifications in the Brazilian society at that period, which had the consequence of
permissibility of the exhibition the feminine body, while, at the same time, promoted
strategies for its concealment. The paper refers to three specifics topics: beauty,
motherhood and feminility. This research aims at showing the images of women that
were portrayed in the first magazine about Physical Education - Revista Educação
Physica - published between 1932-1945.