Is my body mine? Thought around the unknown body and the livable life

VANESA VAZQUEZ LABA; SILVANA MONDINO; CECILIA RUGNA; CATALINA ARANGO; CINTIA ORELLANA; PAMELA SANCHEZ

Life configurations

Technische Universität Degruyter

Lugar: Dresde ; Año: 2015; p. 1 - 6

Judith Butler in Unmaking gender, states. If a sperm and an egg are needed for reproduction (it still is) and in that sense, the sexual difference makes an essential part of any explanation that a human being can appeal to claim its origin- Can it be assumed that this difference shapes an individual deeper than other social constructive forces, such as the economic or racial conditions though which one gets to be; the situation of adoption itself; being settle at an orphanage That much comes from the original sexual difference (2004: 26). The discussion about sexuality, the body and the desire has taken a central place at the feminist debates for several decades. At first, dismantling the biologists argumentations on the body and sexuality; then, incorporating desire and fantasy to modify the way of thinking the mandatory heterosexuality; and in the forth coming times, the idea of the social transformation from the debate of the bodies allowed and the livable existence.