The article focuses on the cultural codes involved in the construction of models of female beauty in today and how these affect the behavior of middleclass youth living in the City of Buenos Aires. Between the principal topics we investigate in what measure the young women feel addressed by the aesthetic models spread by the mass media and what degree of influence they practice in the configuration and social production of the bodies and juvenile subjectivities.
Keywords:
youth, women, corporalities
Author Biography
Eugenia Zicavo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Doctora en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Socióloga (UBA), docente e investigadora en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (UBA, Instituto Gino Germani), becaria postdoctoral CONICET. E-Mail: eugeniazicavo@yahoo.com.
Zicavo, E. (2020). The cultural processing of the body in young women of the average sectors of the city of Buenos Aires. Última Década, 21(39), 41–62. Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/56134
