A performatividade do gaydar no livro “Cuidado! seu príncipe pode ser uma Cinderela. Guia prático para identificar um gay no armário”

• Autor(a) principal: Neves Júnior , Mário Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3319
• topic: Armário; Gaydar; Gênero; Sexualidade; Homossexualidade; Dispositivo; Estratégia; Performatividade e autoajuda; Sexuality; Homosexuality; Gender; Gaydar; Dispositive; Strategy; Masculinity; Performativity and self-help; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

The word gaydar has been known as a sort of “radar” which is able to identity or single out gays. Many people argue they possess this so-called “sixth sense” as they label one as gay”. The self-help book Cuidado! Seu Príncipe poder ser uma Cinderela. Guia prático para identificar um gay no armário [“Watch out! Your Prince charming may be a Cinderella. A practical guide to identify a gay in the closet”] aims to help women to out their partners. Our work, thus, is a result of a bibliographical research which sought to identify and criticize the identitary elements used by the authors in order to teach women how to perceive if their partners are gays in the closet. As analyzing the book we mainly concluded that: a) in order to validate their standpoints, the authors have employed a polyphonic discourse based upon either the “experience” or the “authority”. The book has been written with their voices (the authors‟) as well as Sofia‟s and W‟s, and with other participants‟; b) they obsessively have a passion for identifying one as gay through gender elements or stereotypes. Therefore we argue that the book considers hegemonic masculinity as a synonym for heterosexuality. Men who perform counter-hegemonic masculinity may be trapped in the closet, as they are considered gays, as well as suffer verbal and non-verbal homophobic violence; that is, their bodies become more vulnerable; c) the authors perform a “sanitization of women‟s desire”, given that they incite women who have labeled their partners as gay not to carry their relationship on if they become suspicious about their partner‟s sexuality. As concerned with gaydar itself, we have reasoned it as sort of “dispositive” that rules desire, gender and the sexuality of the bodies. Gaydar is a dispositive that forces the bodies to fit into the heteronormative world. For defining dispositive we have agreed on Michel Foucault‟s definition (2006; 2007). Thus, we have come up with eleven visible heterogenic strategies which compound part of the complexity about the dispositive gaydar. Those strategies we named as: 1) power strategy; 2) power-knowledge strategy; 3) binarist strategy; 4) heternormative and homophobic strategy; 5) stereotypical strategy; 6) historic strategy; 7) identitary strategy; 8) sexist strategy; 9) fictional strategy; 10) closet strategy; and 11) performative strategy. In order to present these strategies, we had to base our claims on some outstanding and sine qua non works which together must be figured out as the foundations for the work we carried out: the concept of performativity by Austin (AUSTIN, 1999 [1962]), identity (HALL, 2006; 2011; SILVA, 2001; 2011), sexuality (FOUCAULT, 2006; SEIDMAN, 2010); gender (BUTLER, 2007 [1991]), closet (SEDGWICK, 2007); masculinity (WELZER-LANG, 2000) and bio-power (FOUCAULT, 2006).