(Trans)formações de gênero: por uma análise discursiva dos processos de transexualidades

Abstract

Affiliated with the Pêcheux Discourse Analysis, this dissertation discusses the discourse of a transgender subject and its possibility to break with the knowledges originated from the hegemoniac norm. It is from the theoretic-analytic base of Pêcheux Discourse Analysis (AD) and from the theoretic base of the Gender Studies that are arranged views, during this work, to observe the elements of the discoursive materiality and its historical and ideological constitutive relation aiming the gender performativity issue, notion that proposes to disconect the idea that each body corresponds to only one fixed gender, in other words, the gender effect is produced by the body stylization and might be understood as the way gestures, movements and body styles of various kinds constitute the illusion of a subjectivity that is marked by the gender. Therefore, affiliated to the Gender Studies, I believe that there are not essences or naturalness on the genders we reproduce, these are nothing but the discoursive constructions that, when are historically, culturally and ideologically created, establish normalized social performances for what we understand as man and woman. This dissertation is organized into five chapters: in the first, I propound the theoretical referential that I am based to compose my analyses, discussing the notions from the AD and from the Gender Studies; in the second, I posit the socio-historical and situational production conditions of the transgender discourse; in the third, I describe the way that the research was methodologically conducted, bringing the discourse of the trans subject; in the fourth, I present my analytic view about the discoursive sequences collected from one of the interviews; and in the fifth and last chapter, I propose a closure effect based in the analysis and theoretical discussions presented as well as I ponder the validity of this dissertation.