Vestindo corpos, tecendo femininos : gênero e construção de feminilidades em colunas de moda da imprensa porto alegrense (1960-1970)

Abstract

The current dissertation intends to analyze what are the associations between fashion speeches disseminated in the press and the production of female stereotypes, from 1960 to 1970, in Rio Grande do Sul. For that, I analyzed the fashion columns published in the newspaper Correio do Povo and in the magazine Revista do Globo during this period, along with photographs published in these means and also those that highlight Porto Alegre’s everyday life. Through these sources, it is meant to show the main fashion trends spread by these means of communication and how they relate with the time’s ideals of femininity. It was intended to understand in which way the speeches of fashion system acted in the maintenance of gender stereotypes and also in the purpose of new ideas of femininity. As a result, it is possible to observe that these vehicles opted by publishing fashion trends related to the controlled behavior of women, associated with elegance, keeping away from their publications suggestions that could present more liberal kinds of body and behavior movements.