Vestida de noiva – as espacialidades da mulher na cerimônia de casamento: uma abordagem comparativa entre Campo Grade e Paris

Abstract

This present thesis discusses the marriages spatializations, with reference to the point of view of women, namely, the bride, in a comparative approach between Campo Grande and Paris. We aimed to investigate the bride’s spatiality as a character of heterosexual marriages, considering the institutional, archetypal, ritualistic and bodily scales. Specifically, it aimed to understand the similarities and differences of both religious and the laic institutionalization process of wedding and marriage laws in Brazil and France; to analyze the marriage as a geographic and demographic phenomenon, as well as the reasons for this kind of union; to interpret the impacts of the diffusion of weddings media images as the models of bride personification are absorbed or not by the society in Brazil and France; to analytically describe the rituals as spatiality which highlights the bride as a protagonist; to identify the spatializations constituted by the bride in the wedding ritual, from preparation to the exit of the church, the notary or the mairie; and to expose the bride's corporeity as a geographical perspective of cultural study. The methodological procedures used were the exploratory, descriptive and explanatory researches, employing techniques of bibliographical and documentary research, observation and semi-structured interviews. The spatial area is Brazil and France, specifically Campo Grande and Paris. This thesis defends that marriages (in this case, heterosexual) have different scales of spatiality, which are supported by symbolic and institutional models that print normative and cultural requirements to the bride's representation as the protagonist, whether civil or religious ceremony. Therefore, the first chapter served as introductory base in which the constitution/production of weddings models in a geo-historic perspective was approached; we sought to explain demographically religious cropping, as well as present the understanding of marriage for the Roman Catholic Church. Also, the similarities and differences spatials of wedding institutionalization between Brazil and France and their laws with respect to marriage was exposed, besides demonstrating statistical and demographic data related to marriage in Brazil and France, ending with the presentation of factors that lead people to marry or not. The second chapter presents the fairy tales that through the images that are produced fabricate marriages models that influence people and are absorbed by the society, as well as weddings of royalty and celebrities serve as inspiration for brides. The third chapter studies the rituals as spatiality of princely, fairy tales and anonymous weddings, examining the places of ritual and the transformations for the realization of the marriage, also making a spatial analysis of the positioning and the directions of the characters during this act, comparatively between Campo Grande and Paris. The fourth chapter is about the bride's corporeity as a symbol of marriage in three different perspectives: character, icon and wedding product.