Cuerpo de la mujer, territorio de paz: las cirugías plásticas estéticas como una violencia simbólica

Abstract

The present report intends to study the social representations that rule the body of women in the city of Cali since plastic surgery has become very popular in the past years. From a qualitative research approach that refers to plastic surgeries for esthetic purposes, we take as reference the professional people that Works in Picasso Clinic and its patients on July 2019. With the support of theoretical concepts, under the premises of authors like Michael Foucault, Serge Moscovici, Gilles Lipovetsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud among other important thinkers who have studied human and social behavior, it is intended to develop a reflective work from Social Work, which allows the recognition of body transformation throughout a surgical intervention as a practice that hides psychosocial, cultural and economic factors that produce violence towards the woman; factors that have gained strength in the current era and are accepted to a greater extent by the female community. Thus, the objective is to publicize a symbolic violence that is part of a naturalized practice and frames the female figure in certain canons of beauty. The domain of the body, in the search for ideal beauty, has been the main theme in this paper that seeks to exalt the body of women as a territory of peace