Secrets and ‘truths’ about the intersex condition in Grey’s Anatomy

Authors

  • Luciana Aparecida Siqueira Silva Instituto Federal Goiano Campus Urutaí/ Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
  • Claudiene Santos Universidade Federal de Sergipe
  • Laíne Lopes da Silva Universidade Federal de Sergipe
  • Elenita Pinheiro de Queiroz Silva Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i16.43016

Abstract

Paul Beatriz Preciado states that restricting sex to a binomial is a Western obsession, in an interview in 2008. We analyze how the intersex condition and intersex people are introduced in two episodes of the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. We inquire about the discourses called upon on the narratives of these episodes and by the protagonism or invisibility and erasing of the intersex voices and bodies. We focus on the teachings about these bodies found in this series. We find the reiteration of heteronormativity, the exploitation of affective relations, the medical discourse, the diagnosis and the secret that intersex bodies retain. The latter are used as functioning mechanisms of the sex binomial and to the production of gender identity and “normal” bodies, by the family and by medicine, establishing silence agreements regarding the adequacy of bodies to an intelligibility of gender aligned to sex. The TV show permeates the concept of order more than that of disorder.

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Author Biographies

Luciana Aparecida Siqueira Silva, Instituto Federal Goiano Campus Urutaí/ Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Docente do Instituto Federal Goiano Campus Urutaí, Núcleo de Ciências Biológicas. Doutoranda em Educação, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia.

Claudiene Santos, Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Doutora em Psicologia (FFCLRP/USP). Docente do Programa de Pós Graduação Interdisciplinar de Cinema e Narrativas Sociais da Universidade Federal de Sergipe.

Laíne Lopes da Silva, Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Comunicóloga. Mestranda do Programa de pós-graduação Interdisciplinar em Cinema da Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Elenita Pinheiro de Queiroz Silva, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Doutora em Educação. Professora Associada 2 da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia/Faculdade de Educação.

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Published

2021-10-27 — Updated on 2021-08-16

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How to Cite

Siqueira Silva, L. A., Santos, C., da Silva, L. L., & Silva, E. P. de Q. (2021). Secrets and ‘truths’ about the intersex condition in Grey’s Anatomy. Revista Periódicus, 1(16), 74–105. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i16.43016 (Original work published October 27, 2021)

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 16 (2021): Intersexualidade: desafios de gênero

Section

DOSSIÊ 16 - Intersexualidade: desafios de gênero

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