Queering Biology: Notes as a Contribution to the Field of Gender Studies
by José Luís Ferraro
pp. 98-117 Issue 16 (8,2) – July-December 2021 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2021.8.2.6
Abstract
Considering the debate around gender studies, as well as the interdisciplinary character of this field of knowledge, the present article throws light on the need for the emergence of a queer biology by interrogating the epistemological limits of biology, constituting around a discourse on life; intending it in relation to the ways it collates biodiversity. Thus, it addresses issues related to the norming characteristic of disciplining, and the necessary normalization for a biopolitical governmentality using Michel Foucault as a reference. Finally, it highlights the need for a queer biology in the guarantee of a more inclusive and less excluding future, whose duty should be the production of continuous displacements of biological sex as an inert and material category towards the potency of gender as a potent expression of human sexuality.