O espetáculo do gênero: fé, dinheiro e desejo na disputa global e local da "ideologia de gênero" no marco de uma teoria performativa da política e do direito

Abstract

The Gender Spectacle is a masters thesis that incorporates themetaphor of a theatrical spectacle to create a narrative on the dispute forthe frameworks of gender intelligibility at the turn from the 20th to the 21st century.In a dialogue with the theoretical apparatus of Judith Butler, the work proposes areflection on the effects of the battle on gender-ideology in the constitution ofregimes of public apparition of bodies. In the first scene, Genesis, we portray theinternational origin of the anti-gender crusade led by the Vatican in the 1990s. In thesecond scene, Tupiniquins, the characters in the Brazilian scenario of combat togender-ideology emerge and speak of their perspectives on such strife. In the thirdand last scene, Dramaturgy, the narrator, undressed, presents his version of thedispute, in a way to bring together the two previous scenes and add their contributionto the set of narratives presented to date by Brazilian researchers. We base on theassumption that gender is constitutive of the social intelligibility lenses in the modernworld, weaving and ordering its processes of subjectivation. Therefore, the centralargument of our dramaturgy lays on the statement that the dispute of gender is, firstand foremost, a dispute for projects of political power. Projects that may be steered bythe authoritarian character of an eternal quest of the lost organic unicity or by thedemocratic character of a permanent rearticulating becoming of social intelligibilities.Such is the conflict of an open spectacle.