Eva en el Paraíso: la construcción y representación del cuerpo femenino en la playa como espacio turístico en Costa Rica
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2016-07
Autores
Barboza Núñez, Esteban
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Universidad de Costa Rica
Resumen
El artículo analiza la representación del cuerpo femenino como destino
turístico, en la promoción de las playas en Costa Rica. Se hace un esbozo del
estatus de la figura femenina en el imaginario androcéntrico occidental, desde
sus raíces judeocristianas y de pensamiento clásico, hasta el advenimiento de
la modernidad. Se reseñan postulados acerca del estatus del cuerpo femenino
y la forma en que se construye en las representaciones gráficas; se parte de que
la manera en que el cuerpo femenino es representado en la publicidad,
enfocada a atraer turistas a la playa, le genera una doble otredad. La primera
como mujer, cuyo físico es controlado por un imaginario androcéntrico que lo
usa cual Eva-sirena, que tienta y atrae al posible visitante. La segunda como
elemento que recrea una fantasía de exploración colonial de una playa prístina
y “virginal”, y que la aleja de la modernidad racional cartesiana, en la cual la
mente se impone a un cuerpo que debe ser controlado y domesticado por la
razón.
The article analyzes the representation of the female body in the advertisement industry of the beach as a touristic destination in Costa Rica. The paper starts with a survey of the status of the female body in Western androcentric thought, since its Judeo-Christian and classical roots, to the advent of modernity. There is also an analysis of the way the female body is constructed in graphic representations, and the main thesis states that the ads intended to attract tourists to the beach and in which the female body appears generate a double othernes in women. First, as females with bodies controlled by an androcentric worldview that uses them as Eve-Mermaids that tempt and attract the potential visitor. The second one, as an element that recreates a fantasy of colonial exploration of a “virgin” beach, and that takes the bodies away from Cartesian racionality, in which the mind rules over a body that must be controlled and domesticated by reason.
The article analyzes the representation of the female body in the advertisement industry of the beach as a touristic destination in Costa Rica. The paper starts with a survey of the status of the female body in Western androcentric thought, since its Judeo-Christian and classical roots, to the advent of modernity. There is also an analysis of the way the female body is constructed in graphic representations, and the main thesis states that the ads intended to attract tourists to the beach and in which the female body appears generate a double othernes in women. First, as females with bodies controlled by an androcentric worldview that uses them as Eve-Mermaids that tempt and attract the potential visitor. The second one, as an element that recreates a fantasy of colonial exploration of a “virgin” beach, and that takes the bodies away from Cartesian racionality, in which the mind rules over a body that must be controlled and domesticated by reason.
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Revista Humanidades. (Revista de la Escuela de Estudios Generales), UCR.
Palabras clave
FEMINISMO, TURISMO, FEMINISM, TOURISM, ICONOGRAPHY, GÉNERO (SEXO), ESTEREOTIPOS, ICONOGRAFÍA, GENDER (SEX), STEREOTYPES