Princesas Ana y Mia. Análisis a los imaginarios de feminidad, cuerpo e imagen en páginas de internet

Abstract

The present research aimed to analyse the imaginaries of femininity, body and image immersed in the contents published and shared through the websites in Spanish Pro-Anorexia and Pro-Bulimia from the decade of 2000 to 2010. Therefore, the Analysis of the still images and the alternative discourses that are developed and reproduced within these virtual communities, was carried out from the application of the qualitative content analysis methodology, which through the investigative tools of Atlas. Ti and an analysis matrix built in Excel, accounts for the social aspects of gender that are implicit and explicit within the virtual communities built around Eating Disorders (EDs). Evidencing the aesthetic demands that are imposed on women from political institutions such as family, fashion and entertainment for the mandatory fulfillment of extreme thinness. The ambivalent agency of the anorexic and bulimic woman in the search for a slim body is also identified, starting from the physical work done on the body as that territory of collective work of an alienating nature in which the realization of a succession of ritual practices is imposed. . While the existence of the high level of awareness about the suffering of an eating disorder that the authors of the Pro-TCA websites have is evidenced, in addition to evidencing the social role that the perceived image has within social relationships.