“NÃO PODEMOS CRUZAR OS BRAÇOS ANTE A DESFIGURAÇÃO PLÁSTICA E PSYCHICA DA HUMANIDADE”: A EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA NA EUGENIA DE RENATO KEHL (1917- 1929)

Abstract

: This text analyzes the relations between Eugenia and physical education in the works of Renato Ferraz Kehl, published between 1917 and 1929. Attracted by the interest of popularizing Eugenia in Brazil, Renato Kehl invested in “Eugenic Education” and saw in the activities mechanisms for pedagogizing Eugenic precepts. With the support of Physical Education, Kehl constructed normative models of masculinity as well as diffused physical beauty as a feminine attribution. Affiliated to “Eugenia positivo”, her eugenic beauty education project advocated the teaching of sexual selection as a way to ensure marriage between physically eugenic spouses.