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      Cuidados consigo mesma, sexualidade e erotismo na Província de Tete, Moçambique Translated title: Care with herself, sexuality and eroticism in Tete Province, Mozambique

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      Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva
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      Sexualidade, erotismo, corpo, Moçambique, Sexuality, eroticism, body, Mozambique

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          Este artigo analisa as noções de estética e erotismo, e como estas moldam a maneira de as mulheres na província de Tete, em Moçambique, prepararem seu corpo. Grupos focais e entrevistas individuais permitiram constatar que as mulheres utilizam diferentes produtos naturais e sintéticos, tradicionais e modernos, por inserção na vagina ou por ingestão, para modificar a maneira de sentir seu corpo e se preparar para o ato sexual. Em adição, a maioria das mulheres alonga os lábia minora (pequenos lábios vaginais) desde a infância, modificando seu corpo de acordo com critérios estéticos, noções de feminilidade e de prazer sexual. Essas intervenções se inserem num processo de socialização cuja educação integra componentes de estética, sexualidade, reprodução e sobre a vida em geral. O artigo procura mostrar a importância das metáforas e das noções de fechado/aberto, seco/úmido, quente/frio, pesado/leve, vida/morte, riqueza/pobreza, doce/não-doce como simbolismo de gênero ligado ao erotismo, a reprodução e a concepções estéticas.

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          This paper analyzes notions of aesthetics and eroticism and the ways these mould how women in Tete Province, in Mozambique prepare their body. Focus group and individual interviews allowed to assess that women use different products both natural and synthetic by insertion in their vagina or by ingestion to modify the way they feel their body and prepare themselves for the sexual act. In addition, the majority of women elongate their labia minora (small vaginal lips) since their childhood, modifying their body accordingly to aesthetic criteria, notions of femininity and sexual pleasure. These interventions are part of a process of socialisation integrating components on aesthetic, sexuality, reproduction and life in general. This paper aims at showing the importance of metaphors and of the notions of closing up/open, dryness/ wetness, hot/cold, heavy/light, life/death, wealth/poverty, sweet/ non-sweet as gendered symbols related to eroticism and aesthetic.

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                Journal
                physis
                Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva
                Physis
                IMS-UERJ (, RJ, Brazil )
                0103-7331
                1809-4481
                2009
                : 19
                : 2
                : 387-404
                Affiliations
                [01] Johannesburg orgnameUniversidade do Witswaterand África do Sul bagnolbrigitte@ 123456icon.co.za
                [02] Maputo orgnameUniversidade Eduardo Mondlane Moçambique esmeralda.mariano@ 123456uem.mz
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                S0103-73312009000200008 S0103-7331(09)01900208
                8e766808-ffcf-427d-af0c-e7fc2986d0ec

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                : 03 December 2008
                : 12 February 2009
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                Mozambique,body,eroticism,Sexuality,Moçambique,corpo,erotismo,Sexualidade

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