%0 Journal Article %T Discursos que (con)formam corpos gr¨¢vidos: da medicina ¨¤ educa£¿£¿o f¨ªsica %A Schwengber %A Maria Simone Vione %A Meyer %A Dagmar Estermann %J Cadernos Pagu %D 2011 %I N¨²cleo de Estudos de G¨ºnero - Pagu %R 10.1590/S0104-83332011000100011 %X the present article is an integral part of a research inspired in the fields of gender studies that approximate theorizations by michel foucault (1998; 1997). we discuss the contemporary educative process as "politicization of femininity and motherhood", a process that, in its extension, includes the "politicization of the pregnant body". in order to conduct this discussion, we have examined issues of pais & filhos, a magazine published from 1968 to 2004, using methodological strategies of analysis of discourse. from the analyses resulting from that investigation, we have spotted a movement that allows for the visualization of a wider network of care and new knowledge, defined as "good" prenatal care, that produces different subject positions; one of these positions is that of a good mother, i.e. that one who looks after herself and others. %K body education %K gender %K motherhood %K media. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-83332011000100011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en