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Beyond heteronormativity: subjectivation and the construction of sexual identities/ Para la da heteronorma: subjetivacao e construcao da identidade sexual
This article explores the social construction of non-heteronormative sexual identities using as a theoretical framework the articulation of three dimensions of sexual experience: integration, strategy and subjectivation. It is argued that the formation of non-heteronormative identities can be better...
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Published in: | Estudos feministas 2016-05, Vol.24 (2), p.541 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Portuguese |
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Summary: | This article explores the social construction of non-heteronormative sexual identities using as a theoretical framework the articulation of three dimensions of sexual experience: integration, strategy and subjectivation. It is argued that the formation of non-heteronormative identities can be better understood as a result of sexual subjectivation and, more particularly, of the tension between it and another important logic of sexual experience, integration. This happens because individuals that live beyond the conventional boundaries of heteronormativity build their sexual experience inevitably in conflict with such hegemonic norms, entailing a process of reflexivity that contributes to produce a distance between the Self and conventional roles and values, questioning them or even adopting alternative models. Keywords: Sexual Experience; Sexual Identity; Sexual Fluidity; Integration; Subjectivation; Heteronormativity; Queer Identities; Sociology of Experience. Este artigo explora a construcao da identidade sexual que nao se enquadra na heteronorma a partir de um quadro teorico que articula tres dimensoes da experiencia sexual: integracao, estrategia e subjetivacao. Argumenta-se que a formacao destas identidades pode ser mais bem compreendida segundo o eixo da subjetivacao e, mais particularmente, na tensao que se estabelece entre este e o da integracao. Isto acontece porque, entre os individuos que vivem para alem dos limites convencionais da heteronorma, a experiencia sexual constroise, inevitavelmente, em confronto com a mesma, gerando uma reflexividade que contribui para operar um distanciamento do individuo face a papeis e valores convencionais, problematizandoos ou, mesmo, adotando modelos alternativos. Palavras-chave: experiencia sexual; identidade sexual; sexualidades fluidas; integracao, subjetivacao, heteronorma; identidades queer; sociologia da experiencia. |
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ISSN: | 0104-026X |
DOI: | 10.1590/1805-9584-2016v24n2p541 |