As vicissitudes da noção de gênero: por uma concepção estética e antiessencialista.

Abstract

This paper problematizes the notion of gender currently circulating. Such problematization required a bibliographical review on the rise of the concept of gender within the feminist movement, its insertion in the academic debate, and an examination of how the concept has evolved in the human and social sciences. The paper discusses concepts of gender from an identity and binary perspective to a fluid power relationship one. This evolution is due to social practices that have given rise to different ways a person has to relate to themselves. Thus, understanding gender as a fluid concept assigns it a resistance dimension since it denies the substance of truth of any aesthetics of existence.