Cartografias do feminismo contemporâneo à luz da tríade anti-universalista de Foucault, Butler e Preciado

Abstract

The present work aims to go through the conceptual panorama of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Paul Preciado, and their interpretations about the formation of identity/subjectivity, to understand how it is possible to interpret the feminist movements from perspectives that disregard any character of universalism of the sign . Although the so-called feminist movements in Ondas do not seek to naturalize gender, and the most diverse facets can be found considering which “feminism” is being analyzed, we will, through the authors, understand how it is possible to be feminists, without considering gender as a foundation. of political discussion, using the contributions that the cited authors bring to feminist critical theory. To do so, we will reconstruct the displacements caused by her works in relation to the hegemonic positions that may emphasize an ontologizing essentialism of the feminine. In the case of Foucault, his critique of universals helps sustain new perspectives on the feminine identity paradigm in a non-ontological character. Butler, in turn, when writing Gender Problems, pointed to the limits of the sex/gender distinction operated in feminism, helping to reframe the political framework. Finally, with Preciado and his experimental philosophical conceptualization presented in Testo Junkie, we realize how gender is a biopolitical machine that can be modified according to the individual's discretion and self-identification. Therefore, although the authors depart from different contexts, influences and theoretical frameworks, we will emphasize how their conceptual tools help to reformulate and update models of diagnosis of signs in feminist theory.