El ideal de belleza como construcción de marcas de reconocimiento en sociedades ocularcentristas: la construcción del cuerpo en mujeres ciegas del Área Metropolitana de Monterrey

Abstract

The aim of this paper is around the question: How do the blind women build the body image? Are they influenced by
the hegemonic discourse of the ideal of beauty? At first we define the characteristics of an ocularcentric society. Than
once we make a deconstruction of empirical research about the body building in blind women. Finally we present our
proposed analysis, relying on narrative psychology, developing a perspective that interprets the building body in blind
women as a narrative act through which marks recognition are used to evaluate and classify something as beautiful
and attractive. In the analysis of the interviews we found that building of recognition marks has two variables: a) one
in which certain distrusts and even rejections in the opinions generated is shown by using senses such as smell , touch,
etc. (b) Other one in which a concept is constructed: tactile aesthetics. Distrust or acceptance of aesthetic tactile is generated
mainly by aspects such as: (a) age at which they lost the sight (b) job they do (c) blindness condition time.

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