Abstract

SERRANO, Héctor et al. Visual codes of gender and sexual configurations showed in pictures. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.2, pp.769-782. ISSN 1692-715X.

From the first years of life, each human being receives an accumulation of attitudes, conducts and values that are learned and apprehended sometimes like specific learning ideals and some others like imitation models of adult's behavior. This context has been structured historically from the binary system of masculinity/femininity, whose cultural reduction determines gender inequalities that affect social interactions. The gender inequalities are identified in the domestic and the massive circulation of images that contribute with the configuration of codes and representations that promote confusing gender identities. The aim of this article is to show some visual codes presented in a group of photographs that exhibit the perpetuation of gender inequalities.

Keywords : Gender symbolism; sexual identity and visual codes.

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