Sexual Imaginaries and Medical In/Attention: Gynecology as Device for Hetero-Cis-Normalization

Abstract

This paper seeks to examine the productive effectiveness and normative violence of
Gynecology, following Foucault’s genealogical method, in terms of a technology of heterocis-normalization that induces a differential distribution of precarity, affecting mainly lesbian (cis or trans), transmasculine, bi, non-binary and pansexual bodies and forms of life. In order to develop this analysis, I will first consider Butler´s developments on compulsive heterosexuality, sex and gender norms and vulnerability as a way of thinking Gynecology as a technic of precarity. Secondly, and following Rohden´s, Cabral´s and Preciado´s thoughts, I will argue that Gynecology operates as a “gender prosthesis” that organizes and discipline bodies through a binary system. Finally, and following Foucault, I will conclude that this implies a paradoxical situation for Gynecology, since its heteronormative matrix produces and induces a systematical inattention and carelessness of LGTB people.