Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología

Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol | eISSN 2011-4273 | ISSN 1900-5407

Escritos en el cuerpo higienismo y construcción médica de la homosexualidad en el Brasil republicano (1889-1940)

No. 3 (2006-07-01)
  • Carlos Eduardo Figari
https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda3.2006.02

Abstract

The creation of the Brazilian national State, in consonance with the regulation of the sexualized and racialized body, was upheld by the ideological apparatus of the medical corporation. This article explores the ways in which a colonized medical discourse determined sex/gender antagonistic differences and the creation of the homosexual subject as a pathological category and taxonomy, especially during the republican period. That discourse was also over-determined by race and class subordination, as markers of the abject.

Keywords: homosexuality, medical discourse, hygienism, abjection, Brazil