Abstract

DELLACASA, María Alejandra. Dimensiones políticas de las tecnologías corporales en personas trans. Avá [online]. 2017, n.31, pp.73-96. ISSN 1851-1694.

The foucauldian’s biopolitical body is presented as an ambivalent place, as the locus in which discipline and oppression are embodied, and at the same time, as a possible horizon on which to develop the capacity of agency and autonomy. We argue that although the body intervention technologies for trans people are initially presented as instances of “correction” and “normalization”, they can become updated, more pleasant and improved versions of their corporeality. Thus, (re) appropriate and (re) signified by the subjects based on their capacity for agency, they can become tools of subversion and disruptive places tending to shape an autonomous body project, in which they can recognize themselves. We focus on visualizing and analyzing some of the political dimensions of bodily interventions, based on the access and democratization of technologies; individual responsibility for a subjective body project involving a displacement from biopolitical to private territory (Rose, 2012) and the emergence of new identities mediated by biotechnology. All of this, in light to the new background inaugurated by the approval of Gender Identity law in Argentina.

Keywords : Body Technologies; Trans People; Normalization; Subversion.

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