Bodies and genres between plasticity, identity and cohesion of the self

  • Francesco Napoli Università di Salerno
Keywords: body, identity, gender, society, biopower, subjectivity

Abstract

The body’s story is interwoven with the construction of social and individual identities, from gender issues. This review is meant to suggest tracks to deepen these issues in an interdisciplinary and multidimensional, with the aim to map historical, cultural, psychological and sociological route that the body has faced in modern Western society. The speech is rooted in historical hypothesis documented by Schettini in Il gioco delle parti which highlights those social and economic changes that characterize the transition between 800 and 900. The debate on the transvestism of the century opens to the medical discourse, psychological, psychoanalytic, sociological and legal. This is tackled by Valerio and Vitelli in Sesso e genere. Uno sguardo tra storia e nuove prospettive. At the end, the text of Putino, I corpi di mezzo, narrates the story of the body with references to feminism, biopower to biopolitics, race to come to the "subversive" of an emancipation "from itself" .

 

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Author Biography

Francesco Napoli, Università di Salerno
Francesco Napoli, Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist is an expert and skilled of gender issues. He works at the “Service for the welfare of the Transsexual People” of ASL Salerno. He is 'PhD student at the University of Salerno. Collaborate with OGEPO, Observatory for the Study of Gender and Equal Opportunities, at the same university where he was a door listening, research, relationship with associations. He is the author of several articles and researchs on the topics of sexuality and gender. E-mail: francesconapoli.psy@gmail.com
Published
2013-10-23
How to Cite
NapoliF. (2013). Bodies and genres between plasticity, identity and cohesion of the self. La Camera Blu, (9). https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/2012