Representations of female bodies on the covers from TPM Magazine

Abstract

In a mediatizing society, women's magazines help to legitimize and disseminate stereotypes, patterns of behavior and reinforce various beliefs, including how the relationship between women and their bodies should be, which is often associated with an aesthetic pattern ideal. In this sense, the main objective of this research is to analyze how Trip Para Mulher (TPM), a magazine that proposes to go against the pre-established standards, presents on its covers the issue of women's body aesthetics to analyze whether the publication only reaffirms the ideal standard already enshrined or whether it shows greater body diversity in its content, since it is of paramount importance that the woman can understand that she does not need to fit into certain aesthetic standards to be happy. As a methodological strategy, content analysis (BARDIN, 2016) of three editions of the referred magazine was used, so that, as a result, we could see that in the headlines of the cover calls TPM tries to deconstruct the idea that women need to be thin and that the relationship with your body should not be based on your body weight. However, the models that star in the covers still have a body that, even though it is not the ideal, that is, that is totally within the standard pre-established by society and the media, still does not totally escape it.

(Image TRIP Magazine)