The aim of this study was to analyze the representations of body (race, obesity and beauty), sexual violence and aspects of vulnerability, education and emancipation faced by the protagonist of the film "Precious: based on the novel 'push' by sapphire". The analysis identified representations of the fat and black body, rejection and prejudice, the desire to be beautiful and famous, the body's value and its beauty. The protagonist´s mother explores and violates her physically and psychologically. She also covers up the sexual abuse done by her husband and blame the daughter for it. In this direction we could say that the violence has a diffuse characteristic. Regarding the sexual violence, vulnerability was identified in the individual, social and institutional dimensions. The education played an important role in the protagonist process of emancipation from the situation of oppression and vulnerability.
Body; Body image; Sexual violence; Vulnerability; Liberation education