Mulheres jovens, selfies, feminilidades e subjetividades em imagens

Abstract

This thesis, performed with young women from a public school in the outskirts of Juiz de Fora, MG, deals with the relationship between selfies images - which are published in the social networks of each of the participants - and the constitution of subjectivities that, affected by the devices. of femininity, enable women to be constituted. This work problematized the importance of image in the constitution of subjects, especially women, due to its intense relationship with beauty and behavior standards imposed by the society in which we operate. I will draw on authors and authors from the poststructuralist perspective who lead us to think about how we constitute ourselves, how truth games capture us, and how relationships subjectify us. Through this perspective I was prompted to constantly ask and rethink how we become who we are. The Gender and Visual Culture Studies also supported the conduction of this thesis, which was outlined in dialogue with the authors, but also with the meetings with the young people, the orientations and the Research Group. Importantly, this work considers education as a broad process, in which the media and society itself influence the shape of individuals. In the meetings held through Focus Groups I privileged the contact between the young women and their oral or imaginary reports about themselves. It should be said that this is not a conclusive or explanatory study of what selfies and youth are, but an investment in problematizing the relationship that exists in constituting a young woman through images. In this process I assumed that the subjects' education takes place in various life situations and that cultural artifacts, such as the pages of Social Networks, are educational instances that influence how each one understands their existence and their relationship with the world and people.