Transit to Where? Monstrosity, (Des)pathologization, Social Insecurity and Transgender Identities

Authors

  • Jorge Leite Junior Universidade Federal de São Carlos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2012000200016

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the category of “monster” and its close relation with the pathologization and criminalization of people seen as “sexual deviants”, especially transvestites, transsexuals and intersex. At the beginning of the XXI century, with the questioning of medical authority, the politicization of the social movements of transvestites and transsexuals and their battle for despathologization, where to direct the “disorders” of sex or gender, “paraphilias’”and “perversions” with all the persistent stigma attached to them? Will they be understood againas potentially dangerous by the increasingly widespread culture of security?

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Author Biography

Jorge Leite Junior, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

É doutor em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), professor Adjunto do Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Suas áreas de pesquisa são gênero, sexualidade, pornografia, entretenimento e riso.

 

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Published

2012-05-21

How to Cite

Leite Junior, J. (2012). Transit to Where? Monstrosity, (Des)pathologization, Social Insecurity and Transgender Identities. Revista Estudos Feministas, 20(2), 559–568. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2012000200016

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Dossiers

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