Women's objectified bodies: the role of education

Abstract

The quest for physical perfection, although, today, desired by both sexes, is, in particular, pursued by the female one. Several re-searches point out, in fact, that it is primarily girls/women who experience feelings of frustration and inadequacy toward their bod-ies, especially because they are accustomed to deriving much of the positive judgments of others from their physical appearance. In this profound fragmentation of subjectivity on the pedagogical level, it follows that there is a need to reflect on how formation, as a biodynamic process between mind and environment, can inhibit or limit the production of stereotypes and categorizations existent and accompany the subject in formation to recover a materiality, the bodily one, in order to recognize, understand, appear and re-spect it in himself and others, valuing his uniqueness.