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This reflective article explores, through a critical feminist autoethnography —understood as a qualitative
research approach that connects personal experience with sociocultural analysis the historical and contemporary
processes of female bodily disciplining within educational and academic institutions. Drawing on a situated
personal narrative, it examines the religious and social imaginaries that have shaped the body as a moral
and regulated territory—from the biblical myth of Eve and the Catholic schooling system to the embodied
aesthetics of university teaching. The article conceptualizes corporeal dispossession as the result of institutional
mechanisms that define femininity through appearance, morality, and knowledge, revealing how these structures
persist under new symbolic mediations. Ultimately, it argues that writing itself becomes an act of resistance and
bodily reclamation, a space of memory and emancipatory discourse.
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