The Discourse Analysis of the Scientific-Medical Knowledge that Legitimates Medical Mutilations to Intersex People in Costa Rica
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| Materyal Türü: | artículo original |
| Durum: | Versión publicada |
| Yayın Tarihi: | 2025 |
| Diğer Bilgiler: | Introduction: the Costa Rican medical system has perpetrated violence towards intersex people by means of pathologization and mutilation. Thus, there must be a convincing questioning towards this system that justifies these types of violence. Objective: the purpose of this article is to analyze the medical discourse and non-discursive practices that legitimate and perpetuate the pathologization and mutilation of people who were born with sex variations. Methodology: this study has a qualitative and exploratory approach in which the Foucauldian discourse analysis was used and semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted. Results: sex variations are pathologized from the construction of a “healthy body” and towards which are compared within the medical discourse and non-discursive practices. This “healthy body” type is endosexual and positioned as base material that promotes the continuity of the gender binary from its patriarchal construction. Conclusions: the medical discourse and non-discursive practices keep legitimating mutilations towards people born with sex variations by using mostly and for this purpose non-medical reasoning and surreptitious coercive methods. |
| Ülke: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Kurum: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Dil: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/261 |
| Online Erişim: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rreflexiones/article/view/261 |
| Anahtar Kelime: | Intersexualidad Discurso Sexo variante Reglas de formación Prácticas no discursivas Intersexuality Discourse Sex Variations Rules of Formation Non-discursive Practices |