Memórias escolares de travestis: a formação dos sujeitos nos discursos da ciência

Abstract

The present research is aimed at understanding the travestis' narrative life through their narratives about their experiences and social practices related to education and science. This research is based on the feminist and Foucault studies, particularly on the infamous life; sexuality and sex concepts. These studies consider sexuality as a dispositive of power that is based on the inclusion of sex into the systems of power regulation. Moreover, they question the evidence of a hegemonic binarism that regulate language, social and sexual practices. However, this research questions if the travestis bodies are transformed into subject or if such bodies are transformed into infamous subject when shocked against the power. Would the medical discourses and the public policy for the travesties bodies be ways to transform those bodies into subjects? Thus, sex, sexuality, gender, body and scholar memory were the focus on the analysis of interviews recorded through the method of oral history. The analyses showed that the travesti destabilizes the orders of binary sex and the impositions of masculine/feminine, normal/abnormal, male/female models, which make the bodies subordinated to the symbolic power and material. On the one hand, the travestis bodies are subject, expressed by medical discourses and public policies and on the other hand these bodies live infamously.