“Repara só, leitor, na perfeição completa d’esse busto”: O erotismo feminino nas capas do periódico O Rio Nu (1908 – 1909).

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the female bodies, erotism and pornography presentes in the newspaper covers O Rio Nu, the newapapaper circulating in Rio de Janeiro city. O Rio Nu was published between the years of 1898 and 1916, being part of the modernization process in the city. At the same time doing critics about this process. Was a humorous newspaper, that deal with several subjects, from political discussions to gossip about the prostitution districts of city Rio. The photographs, one of the symbols of modernization, start to appear in the Rio Nu betwen the years of 1908 and 1909. They where taken from the french artisct manual L’Étude Académique. The covers showed photos of naked women with poems accompany them, those assist the conception and understanding about the photos. This reasearch analyzes the covers to understand the construction that these do about the female body, their caracteristics and whos audiance they were looking for. We think, starting from the creation of a market of erotic and pornography publications, the use of the female nude by this market and the relations between body/power/gender on reproduction of female images.