WHEN THE UNDECIDABLE BODY HAS NO PLACE: INTERSEXUALITY AND MEDICAL PRACTICES IN FRANCE OF THE XIX AND XX CENTURIES/QUANDO O CORPO INDECIDIVEL NAO TEM VEZ: INTERSEXUALIDADE E PRATICAS MEDICAS NA FRANCA DOS SECULOS XIX E XX.

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Date: July-Dec 2020
From: Revista Artemis(Vol. 30, Issue 1)
Publisher: Universidade Federal da Paraiba. Facultad de ciencias sociales y humanidades
Document Type: Article
Length: 9,341 words

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In this article we will address the intersex body investigated and controlled by medical practices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in France. From the gender clipping, we will see how ambiguous sex bodies underwent numerous interventions because they presented a structure in opposition to normative models. Through the analysis of medical documents that record cases of intersexuality, we will see how medical knowledge of the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century sought to adapt such bodies to man-woman binarism, often through mutilating surgeries. Keywords: Body. Gender. Intersexuality. Medicine. France. Neste artigo iremos abordar o corpo intersexual investigado e controlado pelas praticas medicas na Franca dos seculos XIX e XX. A partir do recorte de genero, veremos como os corpos de sexo ambiguo sofreram inumeras intervencoes porque apresentavam uma estrutura em oposicao aos modelos normativos. Atraves da analise de documentos medicos que registram casos de intersexualidade, veremos como o saber medico do seculo XIX e primeira metade do seculo XX buscou adequar tais corpos ao binarismo homem-mulher, muitas vezes atraves de cirurgias mutiladoras. Palavras-chave: Corpo. Genero. Intersexualidade. Medicina. Franca.
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