Sexualidade e política em Michel Foucault: normalização dos corpos e estratégias de resistência

Abstract

This dissertation has as subject the studies made by Foucault on sexuality as na instrument in the processo f the subjectification of individuals, considering the possibilities of resistance to the forms of normalization of the sexual identities. By talking Foucault‘s critical deconstruction of the ―repressive hypothesis‖ as a starting point, we can see as evidente the production of subjetivity mechanisms articulated by the construction of knowledge and power relations, which establishes the categorization of the individual in specific sexual identities. We analyze how sexuality becomes na instrumento f na anatomo-politics of the human body, as well as a biopolitics of the species, procedures of power put into practice towards the shape and controlo f individuals and the society itself. Considering Foucault‘s Works on the constitution of the moral subject in the practices of greek and roman antiquity, this study takes the ―techniques of the self‖as a way of creating as ―aesthetics of existence‖. This dissertation applies, at last, to think such na intente as a possibility of exercising the ethical freedom as way of resistance to the forms of gevernamentality as wellas to the processes of subjectification and construction of identity in the field of sexuality.