A representação social do corpo feminino no romance A sombra das vossas asas, de Fernanda Young

Abstract

The present study aims to make a reading about the social representation of the female body in the novel A Sombra das vossas asas (2011), by Fernanda Young. From a reflexive approach, we will seek to make considerations about how social interactions interfere in the way women see their own bodies. The female body, as well as body beauty standards, is considered one of the dimensions of culture that propagate consumer products. In this dimension, the body is responsible for the relational process of feeling, thinking, acting, imagining, desiring, reacting; essential elements to the formation of social representations. Thus, through qualitative analysis involving the body content as social representation and cultural expression, Fernanda Young's novel will be analyzed, especially from the perspective of the character Carina, in order to demonstrate how care for the body is related to the performance of the body that capitalist society cultivates and disseminates as being ideal. For this discussion to be built, we will have as main reference the work The myth of beauty: how images of beauties are used against women (2020), by Naomi Wolf.