Utopías dicotómicas sobre los cuerpos sexuados

Abstract

Hermaphrodites, intersexes, androgynies, transsexuals and homosexuals symbolize the place of the fissure, the border and dissent in relation to bodies and sexes/genders/ sexualities. They represent a privileged discursive space from where we can explore some of the certainties that have been produced and reproduced from the different fields of knowledge and power throughout Western history. The analysis of social and medical categories such as hermaphrodites, inter-sexuality, or the recently known as DSD shows us a complex and simultaneously controversial panorama that has, nevertheless, enough potential to shed some light on the per formative role of social categories. Moreover, it allows us to go into a bioethical-cal debate about the limits of medical practices, and to explore questions about the body's control and normalization, or about the incorporation of new technologies in recreating bodies and identities. © 2013 CSIC.