“Não é apenas uma modinha, é um estilo de vida”: um estudo sobre mulheres fitness em Goiás
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2015-04-09
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This investigation concerns women who are not professional athletes, but who are willing to
adapt their routine to the regular practice of intense physical activity and specific diets, in
search of a life considered healthy by them, but it also, especially, concerns those women
who have bodies endowed with muscle hypertrophy, an appearance that apparently
contrasts with the beauty standards for women nowadays. It is a growing social
phenomenon in Brazil: physically fit women. In order to understand this lifestyle, I traced a
path that discusses the body conceptions adopted by social sciences, going through the
historical trajectory of women in sports, which opens doors for non-athletes to access
physical activity, as well as the way that health clubs reached the current design, which
have been increasingly frequented by women. I set out to develop an ethnographic research
that consisted of: attending and observing two health clubs and a Box CrossFit gym;
following pages on social networks that permeate the fitness universe, which allowed me to
see daily posts that show aspects that revolve around its daily life; observing selected media
products, seeking to critically develop careful notes and comments on how articles in
newspapers, magazines and television programs have addressed the issue of women who
have adopted the fitness lifestyle; problematizing medical scientific discourses about the
body, notions of health and healthy diets. To this end, I distributed 15 posters to health
clubs in different regions of Goiânia, disseminating an online questionnaire in search of
women who wished to adopt this lifestyle. Finally, I conducted eight interviews, based on the
creation of a network, using the life history method, guided by a feminist sociological
approach.
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CASTRO, J. B. “Não é apenas uma modinha, é um estilo de vida”: um estudo sobre mulheres fitness em Goiás. 2015. 154 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2015.