Envelhecimento: corpo, saúde, sexualidade e gênero (Belém-PA, 1920-1930)

Abstract

The dissertation discusses the representations of human aging in Belém do Pará in the first decades of the 20th century through the analysis of texts present in magazines illustrated illustrations that circulated in the capital of Pará, such as “A Semana”, “Belém Nova”, “Pará-Doctor". Accordingly, the debates sought to understand how the process of aging could be interpreted and experienced by the historical subjects of belenense period on screen. It is understood that, due to numerous social inequalities, there was a universe of many disputes related to the meanings given to aging, after all, being old would sometimes mean admiration and respect, sometimes misfortune and rejection, it all depended on the position occupied by those who spoke and those who were the target of the speech. As part of these arrangements, stigmas related to the body, health and sexual fitness; However, these interpretative sets spoke of their own idealizations around a young, modern and developed Brazilian society, at the same time, indicated processes of exclusion compared to what was desired, mainly due to the discursive core intellectual, at the center of which the arguments focused on the “action of time on bodies humans” were heavily produced.