The (trans)roles of the human: plurality and historical subjection

Abstract

Modern idealism has reconfigured, in western society, a new perspective of thinking about the human: that of a virtuous subject who, through assimilation and identification, would be part of a civilized and advanced society. In this process, among other dimensions of subjectivity, it is necessary to think over sexuality, considering that, in the name of moralization, women and men must assume very different social roles, all within a heteronormative perspective. Based on the conceptual approach of the thoughts by Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, we intend to problematize how biopolitics and biopower discipline and make the bodies docile, so that they are subjected to standards of compulsory heterosexuality and heteronormativity, leaving aside the subjectivity and uniqueness of each individual. Based on the bibliographic search work, it was possible to consider that the biopower discourses operate a machinery for subjecting bodies and human sexuality. This, as a historical construction, is attacked and often abolished, despite being an inherently human manifestation. Facing such mechanisms of subjection, resisting and transgressing are necessary actions for the constitution of free subjectivities.