Memory, gender and sexuality: a post-structuralist approach

This paper aims to discuss, in a panoramic way, issues of gender and sexuality evoked in collective memory, in order to bring its importance within a post-structuralist approach, without closing of senses. For such, it was made use of the concept of memory, especially the collective memory and socia...

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Autores: Pereira, Gerson Avelino Fernandes, Radl-Philipp, Rita Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)
Repositorio:Research, Society and Development
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/33746
Acceso en línea:https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/33746
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Collective memory
Gender
Sexuality
Structural violence
Post-structuralism.
Memoria colectiva
Género
Sexualidad
Violencia estructural
Postestructuralismo.
Memória coletiva
Gênero
Sexualidade
Violências estruturais
Pós- estruturalismo.
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Sumario:This paper aims to discuss, in a panoramic way, issues of gender and sexuality evoked in collective memory, in order to bring its importance within a post-structuralist approach, without closing of senses. For such, it was made use of the concept of memory, especially the collective memory and social frames of memory in Maurice Halbwachs (1990; 2004), which brings the notion of shared memory among social groups and replicated as valid truths within that time and space, anchored in frames and milestones. It was verified, through a bibliographic research, that memory is always constituted in a group, and the individual who remembers, in turn, is inserted in this. Thus, this group, which shares the collective memories shared there, uses, most of the time, these memories as rules of faith and practice when there is the reinforcement and influence of larger institutions, which make use of the maintenance of a standardized moral logic of living well. It was also observed that fitting into characteristics considered standard in society is a construction of social groups, and are often used as a form of violence against minority groups such as women, transvestites, transgenders, and subjects with homo-affective sexualities. In this sense, it is up to the academy to promote debates and epistemological constructions that move towards breaking these structural constructs of gender, sexualities, and social roles within a perspective and collective memory standardized by the look of conservative groups that are averse to diversity.