WOMEN BODYBUILDERS AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT

AN ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVES

Abstract

Abstract: The study aimed to analyze the narratives of women practitioners of bodybuilding on sexual harassment. It is a research with a qualitative approach, descriptive. Two instruments were used: a structured sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The data were analyzed through content analysis. There was a significant comment on the malicious look as one of the ways of predominant harassment in the reported episodes, becoming inopportune during the performing physical exercises. The study participants conceived it as an invasion of your intimacy and your training space, as well as, considering the gaze invasive that was not accepted as a form of sexual harassment.