Healthy mind in a healthy body: exercise, food and healthy in pages of Anuário das Senhoras during the Brazilian New State (1937-1945)

Abstract

Articles related to everyday and domestic life bring to light reflections about gender, social classes, clothing, habitation and food. A large part of this activities happens in the domestic sphere, the space in which the women had the greatest responsibility and holes in the first half of the XX century. Observing the pages of the female magazine Anuário das Senhoras among the years 1937-1945, it sought to observe the balises of what is meant in the period on acquire, maintain and conserve a female healthy body, considering for this aim the articles, columns and texts about the “eating well”, exercise and rest for women that belong a certain social stratum - urban middle class, during the New State of Vargas.