The gender binarism as a social, corporal and subjective “dispositif” of power
Abstract
In this article we reflect on diverse uses of the category "gender," and argue for a consideration of gender as a dispositif of power, that is, emphasizing its operationality as a producer and regulator of social and subjective life, in interaction with other dispositifs. Using foucauldian tools to think and analyze relations of power, and picking up on Judith Butler's contributions in this domain related to the articulation between postestructuralism and psychoanalysis, we offer theoretical and analytic approaches to gender's operationality as a particular dispositif of power; from its macrosocial operationality as this is articulated in discourses and practices, to the microsocial normalization of subjects' identities through intersubjectivity and the psychic dimension of social norms and practices.
