La recreación del andrógino y sus representaciones en el arte y los mass mediaun estudio etnográfico sobre los roles de género

Abstract

This document has the proposal of identifying and debating if nowadays the changes, emphasizing the social ones and specially the changes related to gender roles, are leading us to reconsider what is understood as a female or a male role, entailing us to talk about a third gender, the androgynous, and how this concept is being reinvented during its assimilation by the hegemonic system. To achieve that, this thesis will present some of the most important previous theory about sexuality and also will show how the phenomenon is being represented in media and artistic terms, once art and mass media reflect and inspire reality. The androgyny, physical, psycho or social, as any other phenomena, is consequence and mirror of the environment in where it takes place. It is not by chance that the most significant gender roles changes occur during the last 30 years as Camille Paglia (2001) assures. In Spain, for instance, the ascension of the androgynous referent coincides with the Franco’s dictatorial regimen fall. The ethnography based on life stories and the qualitative analysis are the basis to the development of this study. The participant observation and the fieldwork were used as methodological techniques in order to place historic and geographically the social group observed to recover this contextual reference and afterwards understand the phenomenon metamorphosis and its current image. The selected participants life stories will be interrelated with the most relevant subjects mentioned in the theoretical chapters with the purpose of fulfilling the proposed objectives and verifying if the hypothesis can be proved.