Cuerpo y lenguaje no verbal: elementos para la transformación de relaciones sociales desiguales entre hombres y mujeres

Abstract

One of the general agreements around the concept of the body is its capacity for representation, bearer of signs, meanings, among others. The body has been approached in various studies as a product of political, social, economic and cultural history, going through analyzes of its physical structure to anthropological evolutions. Regarding the studies that have been carried out on the role of the body in gender relations, the research carried out by Manuel garrido (2007) that focuses on the way of reproducing gender stereotypes through artifacts such as advertising, alluding here to the body with a use of economic ends and incidents in the reality of each individual. On the other hand, there are Romeu, Piñon and Cerón (2011) who affirm, through the line of study of gender and subjectivity, that the female body has a series of contents and representations that allow interactivity. Another talent in the investigations at the national level is the importance of analysis of the body and its social dimension as stated by zapata (2006); the body and the bases of conformation according to the sexes in urban societies by Vélez, among others. The foregoing shows that there is not a single view and definition of the body and its language in gender relations. In the communicational field, it can be considered as the element with the highest incidence in social life, the one that is pronounced verbally, and it is thought that this possibility directly denies the importance of the non-verbal field and body representation in relationships, in this case of gender, without the presence of textual orality. The foregoing allows us to situate ourselves in a gaze where the language of the corporal can not only reproduce but transform.