Precisamos verdadeiramente de um verdadeiro sexo? Análise do filme Tomboy pelas lentes de Michel Foucault

Abstract

The present essay aims to analyze the film Tomboy through the discussion about the constitution of the subject engendered in the sexuality system proposed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The film features the story of a girl who creates a socially demarcated identity as a male, after moving to a new location with her family. In the article, we analyze in the first place the script of the film and the reasons why we chose this movie title. Subsequently, we dedicated ourselves to the contributions that the philosopher Foucault left as a legacy on the subject of sexuality. To conclude, we present parts of the Tomboy film, articulating it with Foucauldian operators and tools, so as to problematize significant points that reference our current "experience of sexuality", built full of norms and binarisms. It is, therefore, a temporary archetype on the ways of thinking the constitution of the subject, in function of his sexuality, narrowing the problematic related to the relation knowledge-power, knowledge-truth.