A construção do dispositivo da transexualidade: saberes, tessituras e singularidades nas experiências trans

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Maria de Fatima Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4806
• topic: Dispositive; Transexuality; Gender; Dispositivo; Transexualidade; Gênero; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The present study aims to analyze the precept of transsexuality in the health practice. Taking the precept definition and discussion as reference, according to Michel Foucault, the main concern lies in comprehending how transsexuality was transformed into pathology along the XX century, that is, an ensemble of knowledge and power that constituted the elaboration of the gender identity disorder diagnosis, as well as the normative conception of the actual transsexual notion . At the same time, it is intended to emphasize that, in the extent of the precept, negotiations, and mainly subversions of the norm, are presented as possibilities of resistance. From an empiric research, consisting of the execution of semi-structured interviews with transsexuals as well as health professionals, it was possible to perceive and interpret the meanders and vicissitudes that underlie the transsexuality matter. In this sense, the production of the sexuality precept in the XVIII and XIX centuries is discussed at first, moving on to a discussion concerning the invention of transsexuality as pathology following the XX century, mainly after the 1950s. A discussion concerning the located knowledge is subsequently presented, retrieving the importance of the trans knowledge in the extent of the precept and, finally, the identity games present in transsexuality are discussed