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“Gordura não é coisa de macho”: reverberações da gordofobia nas masculinidades de homens gordos
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-04-03) MODESTO, Lucas de Almeida; LIMA, Maria Lúcia Chaves; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2883065146680171; ALVARENGA, Eric Campos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5734378044087055; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1803-2356
Fatphobia is a form of intersectional, structural, cultural and institutionalized violence that affects fat people, discriminating against and harassing their bodies. It is present in different scenarios and is anchored in historically determined pathologizing knowledge, using health and beauty discourses in the media, in the cosmetics industry, pharmaceuticals and procedures that can “cure” a body that has been “sickened” by stigma social caused by this supposed knowledge. It is noted that the majority of productions that question fatphobia were produced by and about fat women, thus there is a need to include the male audience in this debate, since they are also affected by fatphobia in different ways. One of these ways is in the aspect of masculinity, considering the plural ways in which men are subjectivized in Brazil, I investigated how these processes can be fatphobic, considering that hegemonic masculinity has an athletic and muscular body pattern, with fat being an attribute of femininity. In this way, fat men start to have their masculinity put to the test because they possess in excess what the “successful man” seeks to eliminate.” I use an epistemology of authors who study masculinities in a plural way and from a feminist perspective and make use of transdisciplinary studies of fat corporalities. In this sense, this work aims to analyze how fatphobia affects the masculinities of fat men in the metropolitan region of Belém. It is a field research, with a qualitative approach that, through semi-structured interviews, aims to produce information that can be analyzed based on content analysis, in order to answer the proposed objectives. Nine men aged between 20 and 37 participated in the research. From the content analysis, three categories emerged, such as: “It is easier to talk about being fat than about being a man” where I discuss the processes of subjectivation of fat men based on the body, sports and compulsory cisheterosexuality; “It's basically the same outfit, it may not be what you like, but you have to wear it”, in which I talk about the love neglect and fetishization that fat men experience due to fatphobia and “It's my body, it's what I I have!" in which I talk about the forms of suffering and coping experienced by fat men. Finally, this research aims to raise the need for fat men to join the discussions and the anti-fatphobia movement, in addition, it also elucidates the need for future research with cisheterosexual fat men, since only one of the participants identifies in this way, thus, some questions could not be reached regarding this specificity, but highlighted possible idiosyncrasies.
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Representações de mulheres gordas em quadrinhos de autoria feminina da/na Amazônia
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-03-29) GILLET, Fabiana Oliveira; SANTOS, Luiz Cezar Silva dos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2449524316115443
characters. It seeks to understand which are the representations of fat female characters on webcomics made by women authorship from Amazon, if there are those representations and which are the readings of those artists about fat bodies, as artists, drawers, and women, and if there are comic artists who identify as fat women. The relevance of the discussions involving the studies of the fat body in Brazil is highlighted, as research are still under development in the Social and Communication Sciences. It is considered that social representations in hegemonic media products play a fundamental role in the conception and maintenance of social models constitutive of the imaginary, ordering what will be accepted or repressed in society. Thus, it is important to emphasize that comics, as media, are vectors of speeches and stereotyped representations (BOFF, 2014; EISNER, 2005; THENSUAN, 2020), creating and strengthening social stigmas as in the case of fatphobia (ARRUDA, 2021, JIMENEZ, 2020). Therefore, this study aligns the idea that the media bios (SODRÉ, 2002) develops fatphobia, which highlights the importance of an approach from the perspective of communication science (ARRUDA, 2021). We intend to contribute to the research and debate on communication as a vector for maintenance or transformation of models, stereotypes and social stigmas; reflecting on fatphobia and the field of studies on gender and comics. In order to analyze the representation of characters and the production of meanings about fat corporality in webcomics produced by female comics authors from Amazon, we seek to identify fat characters in webcomics and illustrations of female artists from Brazilian Amazon region; dialogue with comics authors through semi-structured interviews (DUARTE, 2005; GASKELL, 2002) about the representation of fat women in webcomics; to analyze the meanings apprehended about fat corporality in the data collected from the analysis of the images (JOLY, 2007) of the illustrations and webcomics; and to discuss the representations of the female fat body and the senses produced and apprehended by these representations. We conclude that the senses seized in the representations present convergences with the discourses of acceptance and self-love diffused by the hegemonic media based on the body positive movement in line with the biosociabilities of consumption of the plus size industry (AIRES, 2019), generating resignifications in the regimes of visibility of the fat body, creating positive stereotypes, with invisibilities of larger fat bodies.