The physical and social immobility of the female universe on the covers of high-end Spanish women’s magazine. A comparison between 2014 and 2021

Abstract

This article addresses the problem of bodily and social immobility to which the female universe is subjected on the covers of high-end Spanish women's magazines. In favor of its analysis, a non-experimental methodology has been implemented, with a longitudinal approach, through two evaluative sections in a period of seven years −2014 and 2021− that has allowed us to examine and verify the existence of said immobility despite being observed a minimal and subtle fracture that seems to introduce non-normative female bodies that exceed a size 36, at the same time that it seems to get rid of the resource of nudity to praise the female body; However, the restrictive body pattern (P.C.E.) is maintained and extended throughout the sample and is appropriated and associated with a feminine universe in which the woman leaves the home environment, but is excluded from the workplace, a facet that would come associated with her capacity for personal, cognitive and intellectual growth, which is non-existent, at the same time that she remains extremely feminine, passive, sensual and narcissistic, without forgetting that all her levels of security are based on her precious corporality.