Is it a boy or a girl? Problemizing the hegemonic binary scientific discourse about sexed bodies
Hegemonic science considers that there are only two sexed bodies: male and female, which is called “sexual dimorphism”. However, evidence reveals that men's and women's bodies vary enormously. This article intends to problematize the hegemonic scientific discourse, which only establishes t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Estudos Antiutilitaristas e Poscoloniais |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.periodicos.ufpe.br:article/259318 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/realis/article/view/259318 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | gênero dimorfismo sexual intersexualidade. gender sexual dimorphism intersexuality |
| Sumario: | Hegemonic science considers that there are only two sexed bodies: male and female, which is called “sexual dimorphism”. However, evidence reveals that men's and women's bodies vary enormously. This article intends to problematize the hegemonic scientific discourse, which only establishes the typical male body and the typical female body as normal and, therefore, frames all bodies that deviate from typical models as wrong or pathological. The research carried out was bibliographical and documentary. The article was divided into three topics: the first presents a brief history of the construction of hegemonic notions about sexual bodies; the second topic presents how atypical bodies are remodeled by scientific discourse in order to consider them wrong and pathological, instead of variations of nature; and, finally, the third presents a new way of looking at all sexual bodies. |
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