The (un)updated device

analysis of gender coloniality in the DSM-V

Authors

  • Flávia Fernandes de Carvalhaes Universidade Estadual de Londrina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1879-7989
  • Mariana da Silva Francisco Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i19.51417

Abstract

The sex/gender system establishes classifications that build normative and deviant perspectives of masculinity and femininity. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (DSM-V) is part of this process as a medical guide to mental illness that contains pathological categories related to part of the gender configurations. Based on documental analysis, this qualitative research problematizes how certain notions articulated in the chapter “Gender Dysphoria” operate in the (re)production of the colonial logic of genres by demarcating and classifying cisheteronormative configurations as normal and human, while those that deviate from this norm are considered abnormal, pathological, unfeasible. It is provisionally concluded on the importance of destabilizing "truths" built in coloniality and guaranteeing rights for minorities that add up in cuir multitudes.

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Author Biographies

Flávia Fernandes de Carvalhaes, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

PhD in Psychology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2015), Master's in Social Psychology from Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP (2008). Lecturer in the Department of Social and Institutional Psychology and the Postgraduate Program in Psychology at the State University of Londrina. Member of the Entretons Research and Extension Project.

Mariana da Silva Francisco, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

She has a degree in Psychology from the State University of Londrina and is a member of the Entretons research group.

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Published

2023-08-29

How to Cite

Fernandes de Carvalhaes, F., & Francisco, M. da S. (2023). The (un)updated device: analysis of gender coloniality in the DSM-V. Revista Periódicus, 1(19), 343–356. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i19.51417

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 19 (2023): To circulate in alliance: methodologies of collaboration and movements between worlds

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Free section

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