(Re)producing the cis body

notes on the sex-gender binary in biomedical discourse

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i20.54766

Abstract

It was only in the 1990s that people with a sexual identity understood as normal by the biomedical discourse started being treated by a proper term: cisgender. Before that, however, subjects interpreted as abnormal were already named. The present work defends that the normal(ised) body can only exist from the negation and/or rejection of the other, a-normalised. Articulating a bibliographical review of genealogies about sexual binary to productions on gender from the queer theory perspective, it aims to analyse the supposed pre-discursiveness of cis identity, revealing it as an ontological self-attribution, which is, in fact, epistemologically unsustainable. That being said, it is concluded that we live in a contemporary somatopolitical era in which the technologies of (re)production of sex are used in order to reinscribe bodies in the dimorphic logic of sexual binarism and proposals in order to de-binary the biomedical discourse are made.

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Patrick Braga, IFMS/AQ

Professor at the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul. Master's degree in Sociology from the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), specialist in Teaching Sociology and bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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2024-03-13

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Braga, P. (2024). (Re)producing the cis body: notes on the sex-gender binary in biomedical discourse. Revista Periódicus, 1(20), 210–240. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i20.54766

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Vol. 1 No. 20 (2024): Non binarity: an emerging idendity in contemporary Brazil

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Dossier 20 - Non-binarity

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