Joanalira Corpes Magalhães

Esquadrinhando corpos abjetos: as homossexualidades nas redes de enunciações científicas

In order to understand homosexuality, in the search for its possible causes and aiming to bring these subjects to normal standards, explanations, theories, investigations and studies from multiple fields of the knowledge have been positioning homosexuals as subjects that present something unusual in their bodies. In this direction, this article presents some analysis about the network of enunciations from the biological order, present in scientific articles, which have been scrutinizing men’s and women’s bodies, intending to produce explanations about the possible causes and origins of homosexuality. Articles available at the Science Direct database are analyzed through some foucauldian tools of the speech analysis. The enunciations network present at the empirical data constitutes two statements: there are proper examining methods to homossexual subjects, and the cause of homosexuality would be in the biological matrix of the bodies of men and women. The analyzed studies, while guiding the construction of knowledge in the detailed investigation of the body in its minutiae, comparing it to other bodies and looking to “discover” a biological origin for homosexuality, ends up establishing and determining the homosexual subject as the one who deviates, runs away from the development considered normal in the population. This constant (re)production of the homossexual as abnormal, a deviation to de identified inside the population, ends up generating prejudice, means to define and acknowledge this subject as abjects to be corrected.

Para além de um corpo transparente: investigando métodos e estratégias de esquadrinhar o sujeito homossexual

The aims of the study are to look at methods and strategies used for analyzing people and classifying them as homosexual and to discuss how certain mechanisms which have been established have made it possible to look at their bodies and arrive at conclusions with regard to such persons. We analyze articles from Science Direct, using a Foucaultian approach. We observe the operation of two technologies: medical body imaging techniques and examinations. These techniques transform the individuals into parts of a strategic device which can be used to build up knowledge, produce files and data, and classify the subjects. The development of this research makes it possible for us to identify certain relationships between homosexuality, the production of scientific knowledge, prejudice, politics and health.The aims of the study are to look at methods and strategies used for analyzing people and classifying them as homosexual and to discuss how certain mechanisms which have been established have made it possible to look at their bodies and arrive at conclusions with regard to such persons. We analyze articles from Science Direct, using a Foucaultian approach. We observe the operation of two technologies: medical body imaging techniques and examinations. These techniques transform the individuals into parts of a strategic device which can be used to build up knowledge, produce files and data, and classify the subjects. The development of this research makes it possible for us to identify certain relationships between homosexuality, the production of scientific knowledge, prejudice, politics and health.