THE MEANINGS OF FEMALE BEAUTY: A RESEARCH WITH ADOLESCENT STUDENTS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI - MG
Feminine beauty. Teenages women. High school.
This dissertation intends to present a research on The meanings of beauty: photographs and
reports of adolescent women high school students. Based on the intense change that the world
goes through in the issue of normative frameworks and on the way adolescents deal with these
changes in the face of the school environment, I seek with this research, the meanings of beauty
for them. In the first section we talked about frameworks, norms, vulnerability, recognition and
power, using concepts of Judith Butler. In the second section, we contextualize the history of
women, the terms beauty and adolescence and high school. The research initially proposes a
bibliographic study and, later, an ethnometodological activity, with the use of photographs
made by adolescents and discourses made by them. The research used the application of a
questionnaire and a conversation wheel among the collaborators to collect data about the
meanings of beauty related to adolescence. After analyzing the data collected, we reached the
final considerations presenting how these women are silenced both inside and outside the
standards of beauty.