La virilité au miroir des femmes

En ce début de XXIe siècle, la rumeur enfle en Occident : les hommes ne seraient plus des hommes, des "vrais". De ce malaise dans la part masculine de la civilisation, la virilité reste un indicateur crucial. Car c\u27est bien sur cet idéal de force physique et de puissance sexuelle, de maîtrise et de courage que s\u27est historiquement construit dans la culture ce qui passe pour la "nature de l\u27homme". Et qui demeure le socle la domination masculine. Il y a donc un paradoxe de la virilité contemporaine : comment comprendre que cette représentation hégémonique de la puissance masculine ait fini par apparaître aussi incertaine ? Les hommes d\u27aujourd\u27hui entendent-ils porter longtemps encore cette charge millénaire, ou vont-ils souhaiter sentir s\u27en alléger le poids ? Quitte à renoncer à ses avantages..

Otro color en mí

Curso de Especial interés: Psicología y sexualidadEl presente trabajo es una investigación descriptiva mediante la aplicación de instrumentos como lo son encuestas. Tiene como objetivo promover por medio de un espacio virtual informar a niños, niñas, jóvenes y adolescentes acerca de la menarquia y la torarquia, que les permita comprender los procesos y cambios físicos y psicológicos que se presentan en el desarrollo del ser humano durante la etapa de la pubertad. El producto consistió en el diseño y validación de una página web en la cual los niños, niñas y adolescentes encontrarán información sobre varios procesos, principalmente sobre la menarquia y la torarquia, allí también podrán enviar sus dudas y estas serán resueltas por profesionales en el tema. La muestra se encuentra conformada por jóvenes estudiantes entre los 18 a 29 años de la ciudad de Bogotá. Uno de los hallazgos más relevantes es que las participantes tuvieron su primera menstruación (menarquia) en un rango de edad entre los 8 a 16 años, siendo esto una variable muy importante para la investigación, mientras que en el caso de los hombres se evidenció que tuvieron su primera eyaculación entre los 9 a 16 años de edad.RESUMEN 1. JUSTIFICACIÓN 2. MARCO TEÓRICO 3. METODOLOGÍA 4. OBJETIVOS 5. DISEÑO 6. INSTRUMENTOS 7. PROCEDIMIENTO 8. ASPECTOS ÉTICOS 9. ESTUDIO DE MERCADEO 10. RESULTADOS CONCLUSIONES REFERENCIAS ANEXOSPregradoPsicólog

Men’s artistic gymnastics: is the use of elastic surfaces systematic in the training process?

Abstract In Artistic Gymnastics, the area (the apparatus) represents the most relevant systemic component. Thus, when one strives to comprehend the internal logic of this sport, the gymnast-apparatus relationship warrants special attention. A change in the training paradigm was observed, showing that the use of Elastic Surfaces (ES) is an essential resource, due to the contemporary features of this sport, such as the hyper-valorisation of acrobatics and a greater presence of flight elements. Through a case study developed in a men’s artistic gymnastics high-performance gymnasium, this study analysed the use of different ES in the training process. Although coaches recognize the importance of ES in training programs, the record of daily activities showed that this use is still limited to select equipment and is not systematic. Such difficulties are due mainly to the lack of educational programs to the development of certain specific methodologies and the non-existence of national equipment suppliers certified by International Gymnastics Federation

Obese societies: Reconceptualising the challenge for public health.

The prevalence of obesity and related health problems has increased sharply in recent decades. Dominant medical, economic, psychological, and especially epidemiological accounts conceptualise these trends as outcomes of individuals' lifestyles - whether freely chosen or determined by an array of obesogenic factors. As such, they rest on forms of methodological individualism, causal narratives, and a logic of substitution in which people are encouraged to set currently unhealthy ways of life aside. This article takes a different approach, viewing trends in obesity as consequences of the dynamic organisation of social practices across space and time. By combining theories of practice with emerging accounts of epigenetics, we explain how changing constellations of practices leave their marks on the body. We extend the concept of biohabitus to show how differences in health, well-being, and body shape are passed on as relations between practices are reproduced and transformed over time. In the final section, we take stock of the practical implications of these ideas and conclude by making the case for extended forms of enquiry and policy intervention that put the organisation of practices front and centre

Da imagem visual do rosto humano: simetria, textura e padrão

Desde a idade antiga, a proporção é uma parte importante dos cânones da beleza, ainda que os gregos e os romanos tenham um conceito muito mais amplo sobre o tema do que a civilização contemporânea: a simetria era para eles não apenas o que se entende como simetria especular, senão, também, a proporção correta; e compreendia além do traçado antropométrico, o conjunto visual - com efeito: a textura da pele, o nível de atração do rosto frente aos padrões de beleza desejados - que a aproximava de uma imagem esteticamente bela. O objetivo deste estudo é realizar uma breve discussão a respeito das questões correspondentes à socioantropologia corporal a partir do rosto humano frente aos padrões contemporâneos de imagem e beleza. Em suma, simetria, textura e padrões faciais, além de biológicos, devem ser considerados constructos culturais que apresentam uma grande diversidade de estados e que suscitam imensa gama de atitudes.Since ancient times, proportion has been an important part of the beauty canons, even though the Greeks and the Romans have a much broader concept regarding the theme than contemporary civilization: to them, symmetry was not only what is meant by specular symmetry, but also the correct proportion; it encompassed, beyond the anthropometric outline, the visual set - skin texture, the level of attraction of the face in light of the desired standards of beauty - that made it approach an aesthetically beautiful image. The objective of this study is to discuss issues related to the social anthropology of the body based on the human face in light of the contemporary patterns of image and beauty. In short, symmetry, texture and facial patterns, besides being biological, must be considered cultural constructs that have a wide variety of states and which give rise to an enormous range of attitudes

Odorous childhoods and scent(ed) worlds of learning: A sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives in Western Europe (1900s-1960s)

This paper develops a sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives which featured (non-)formal schooling, analyzing these as belonging to (a) scent(ed) and more generally sense(d) world(s) of learning. Working with photographs as sensory objects of affect, and using as examples Belgian and Luxembourg open-air schools and associated sanitary and social welfare provisions, the paper explores issues so far under-researched in sensuous scholarship internationally: those of precise educational purposes, methods, processes and effects of sensory engagement, particularly pertaining to “smell”. Sensory practices and experiences and uses of senses generally are thereby traced in/as “situated, embodied” movements inextricably “enmeshed” with symbolism. The paper argues that while the educational goals underpinning the initiatives investigated and the approaches and practices characterizing these have changed, some (un)intended effects still have an impact today, for instance through Forest School as given shape in the United Kingdom. The concept of “odorous”, or rather “sensuous childhoods”, is proposed to denote ways that particular target groups have come to be imagined as in need of explicitly sensorial health and outdoor education

A compreensão médica portuguesa sobre a concepção da criança no século XVIII

A partir do século XVII, novos conhecimentos anatómicos vão possibilitar aos médicos uma compreensão da concepção humana que desagua na autoconfiança que exibe hoje a medicina. Portugal vai integrando esse novo saber médico e, ao longo de Setecentos, vê cada vez mais generalizar-se a ideia de que o homem participava na concepção por meio do sémen que fecundava o ovo existente na mulher, rompendo com as concepções vindas da Antiguidade. Apesar de alguma novidade no conhecimento anatómico e de um raciocínio médico mais fundado na observação sistemática, a ideia que sobressai é a da impotência para responder aos normais anseios das pessoas e a pouca capacidade para desfazer mitos há muito enraizados, como a possibilidade da influência da imaginação na concepção. Um dos contributos de maior alcance desta racionalidade parece ter sido o despertar para uma consciência desenvolvimentista que acentuava a necessidade de se actuar preventivamente na promoção da saúde. Daí a importância de se olhar para os cuidados a ter para com a criança e desde o início, ou seja, desde a concepção