Operações de gênero: o filme XXY (2007) e a produção do corpo e do sexo como “naturais”.

Luciana Fogaça Monteiro; Henrique Caetano Nardi

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v0n16.625

Gender operations: the film XXY (2007) and the constitution of the body and sex as “natural”.

Authors

Luciana Fogaça Monteiro Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Henrique Caetano Nardi Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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Abstract

Based on Foucault’s concept of the body as the surface of inscription of history, and on the work of Judith Butler, this article questions the way that binary and normative conceptions of gender operate in the constitution of a field of intelligibility for subjects and their bodies. We analyse the film XXY (2007) that tells the story of Alex, an intersexual adolescent. We use the main character's story to see how gender norms act to shape bodies and limit their pleasures. We argue that subjects and bodies that do not correspond to the normative ideal are seen as “abject bodies”, following Butler’s definition. The argument is that gender norms operate on all bodies: the normal and the abject.

Keywords

Intersexuality, Abjection, Body, Cinema, Gender

Author Biographies

Luciana Fogaça Monteiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Psicóloga, especialista em projetos sociais (IFCH/UFRGS) e mestre em psicologia Social e intitucional pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

Henrique Caetano Nardi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Mestre e Doutor em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, pós-doutor pela École de Hautes Éstudes em Sciences Sociales (2008) e Professor titular da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).