O desafio da masculinidade subalterna na travestilidade: a dor da beleza

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Mariléia Catarina
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15228
• topic: Travestilidade; Subjetividade; Gênero, Sócio-histórica; Transvestility; Subjectivity; Gender; Socio-historical; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

This paper discusses the constitution of subjectivity in transvestility from the subversion of the body adjusting it to a gender identity. It is a theoretical study, a literature review. Therefore, the construction of this work involved two steps: the first step was the literature review on the subject concerning the period of the last twelve years from the key descriptors found in online data basis (Web of Science, LILACS, MedLine, Bireme Portal.periodicos.Capes, PubMed, Scielo Brazil), and the second step was the participation of the researcher in events, on visits to institutions and in dialogues with experts in the field of transvestility. The research was guided by the theoretical framework of socio-historical Psychology. This perspective believes that the way we assume ourselves is related to our subjectivity, which is historically constructed by the subject in its historical, social and emotional relations, being the human psyche a flexible and malleable category, involving the dimensions of consciousness, activity and identity in which the phenomena of transvestility is understood. It is noticed that transvestility expresses a social and individual subjectivity that is constructed in a dialectical relationship, and that shows the complexity of historical, social, family and personal experiences. It expresses both a transformation of a genetically male body and the transformation of a gender identity opposite to the biological sex, which subverts the gender through sophisticated programming techniques such as hormone therapy, implantation of silicone and use of female clothing and accessories. It concludes that the transformation of the body in transvestility into a feminine image is perceived as a second skin which shows all its performance according to the beauty standards of hegemonic idealized feminine gender identity. The process of constitution of subjectivity is expressed by strangeness and by the complexity of changes in relation to the genetic body, by the construction of a gender identity according to the chosen gender, and consequently by using clothes and expressions of the body, consistent with this gender identity. This means that the constitution of subjectivity in transvestility cannot be described by an anatomical detail, but by a set of experiences that turn the transvestites into beings in a changing process, ranging from the destruction to the construction of a new body, with the challenges of the pain of beauty that is marked by moments and motivations of an individual socio-historical role, and that specifies the challenges in the constant transformation of the body, since the truth of gender is not written in the biological body, but in the many ways of constructing new meanings for genders