The Female Body as a Medical and Mediatic Object

Authors

  • L. Graciela Natansohn Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências – FTC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X200500020005

Abstract

Some Brazilian television channels give opportunities for health professionals, mostly gynecologists, to answer public consultations live. This paper analyses two such programs, which we denominate ‘medical tele-consultations’: the first one is a national TV program called Note e Anote (Record Net) and the second is a regional TV program called Conversa Franca (Band-Bahia). The topic selected to be discussed here is menstruation and the vicissitudes of this period for women. We intend to show how this health issue is represented in these programs as something impure and pathologic and how these representation strategies affect gender identities and create conflicts in relation to women’s bodies.

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Published

2005-01-01

How to Cite

Natansohn, L. G. (2005). The Female Body as a Medical and Mediatic Object. Revista Estudos Feministas, 13(2), 287. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X200500020005

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2005)

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