A ética do cuidado de si na construção da identidade de gênero

Abstract

The subject of sexuality has always been present in hierarchical social structures, it is enough to turn to history to find evidence of the relevance that this subject occupied and still occupies, showing itself as an object of dispute and of control, either individually or socially. The questions that permeate human sexuality, which articulate innumerable categories such as desire, values, beliefs, belonging, recognition, are incommensurable; All these categories to a greater or lesser extent form what is meant by identity. Politics and history guide and shape the identity meanings that regulate interactions in the social and institutional spheres, however, the debate arising from this process is constantly changing, this reinforces the need to discuss not only sexuality, but also the idea of Gender identity, not as mere phenomena or in isolation, but from the politicization of sexuality. The discussion about gender identity has become an increasingly recurrent phenomenon within social discussions, discussions permeated by issues that point to a horizon of conceptual reformulation. From the studies carried out by Michel Foucault on the History of Sexuality, an attempt will be made to analyze the instances that surround and guide the construction of gender as well as social identity. It will rely on the concept of biopower to draw a parallel between the concept of gender and everything that makes it socially accepted or not. Such an attempt aims to understand the feminine and masculine, in order to seek to understand those manifestations of sexuality that do not fit in these two concepts as gender identity, with a view to the glimpse of an identity free of classification.