THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SEXUALITY AND ITS INSTITUTIONALITY: a comment about the roundtable “Knowledge about Sexuality"
Keywords:
sexuality; institution; body; sensibility; biomedicine.Abstract
The commentary focuses on the construction and maintenance of “institutions” that are responsible for the knowledge and practices of sexuality, highlighting how this theme is reflected in the various communications presented. Classical contributions are evoked about the institutionalization phenomenon, from the notion of objective culture in Simmel to the concepts of episteme, device, micropolitics, governmentality in Foucault, passing by some other authors. Biomedicine, psychiatry and sexology are examples brought to the table of strong and constitutive institutionality related to sexuality; but also the very personal trajectories, in which dense affectivity eventuates - not without a certain veiling - the definite institutional dimension involved.
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