O discurso de praticantes de ginástica em academias exclusivas para mulheres

Abstract

This search of quality involves a general question : Is the phenomenon of new gyms only for women the cause of the modern idea of feminine independence? We established an interview to collect observational data. With a semistructured questionaire, we interviewed twenty-three candidates from three women only gyms in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. After the inicial information was abstracted from the relative data from the interview, we formed two arguments. The objective of the first argument was to analyze the identities of women from their pyscological (re)position. We concluded that these "independent women" left behind those traditional roles and have taken more value in their bodies and their relationships, allowing only the privileged to love them. It is a housewife and maternal identity to conserve in this way, fixed, paradoxically, the change of a necessary advancement. The objective of the second argument is to analyze the motives of the practice of excercise in women only gyms and relations with binary sexuality. We concluded that the motives of these interviewed candidates for the practice of excercise in these areas are based, fundamentally, in relation with what they have established, direct or indirect, with men "at home" (boyfriends/husbands) and/or the social scene.