Gênero como crítica

Abstract

This article raises discussions about power dynamics, gender and the historical construction of subjectivities. Exploring the notion that subject positions are overlaps, I question here the approximation between gender and essence. Guided by “Butlerian Foucauldianism”, where the analysis of power and subjectivation meets the becoming of gender and sexuality, I privilege the conception of gender as a performative and contingent act. I evoke the sense of Foucauldian genealogical history, from which discursive practice establishes realities. Underlining the power of language to continually perform genres, I propose genre as a tool to challenge historical, discursively constructed norms. The objective is to open the way for refined problematizations about gender, agency and resistance, which avoid the ontologization of identities.