Abstract
This study proposes to reflect on the links between knowledge production and its daily effects on the field of sexuality, based on intersexuality as a contemporary issue. Intersexuality is an interesting object of analysis for such reflection, since it allows exploring the interfaces between knowledge production on sexuality, power relations between professionals, intersex persons, and their families, use of embodiment technologies, conceptions of the normal and natural body, formation of subjectivities, and the shaping of a new social, political, and moral order heavily associated with subjects' biological constitution. The reflections proposed here originated from a qualitative study in a public healthcare institution serving as a reference for intersex persons in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focusing especially on the discourses of physicians involved in the care for intersex individuals.
Highlights
This study proposes to reflect on the links between knowledge production and its daily effects on the field of sexuality, based on intersexuality as a contemporary issue
Seria precoce responder a estas perguntas, mas é possível apontar que em tempos de dissolução de identidades fixas, em que máquina e organismo se relacionam diluindo um ao outro, em que corpo e tecnologia perdem seus limites descritivos precisos, em que natureza e cultura são vislumbradas como redes entrelaçadas produtoras de novos sentidos e novas experiências, a percepção do sexo como um dado natural e a-histórico perde sua força e as possibilidades de compreensão das subjetividades e sexualidades se ampliam
Summary
A intersexualidade é um objeto de análise interessante para tal reflexão, na medida em que permite explorar as interfaces entre produção de saberes sobre a sexualidade; relações de poderes entre profissionais, pessoas intersexuais e seus familiares; uso de tecnologias de “incorporação”; concepções sobre corpo normal e natural, formação de subjetividades e uma nova ordem social, política e moral que se configura fortemente associada à constituição biológica dos sujeitos.
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