LA IDENTIDAD “POSITIVA” COMO VIOLENCIA SIMBOLICA EN MUJERES CON CANCER
The identity of women is transmuted through the bodily transformations they suffer from undergoing oncological treatments. The questioning of their value as women, situated within the corporeality of reproduction defined by the dominant sex/gender system, occurs when going through a diagnosis of cer...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Institucional Aramara de la UAN |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dspace.uan.mx:123456789/1102 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://dspace.uan.mx:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/1102 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Subjetividad femenina, psicooncología, deber ser femenino, violencia simbólica, corporeidad. Female subjectivity, psycho-oncology, feminine duty, symbolic violence, corporeality ENFERMEDAD [631003] |
| Sumario: | The identity of women is transmuted through the bodily transformations they suffer from undergoing oncological treatments. The questioning of their value as women, situated within the corporeality of reproduction defined by the dominant sex/gender system, occurs when going through a diagnosis of cervical cancer, which takes away the essence of traditionally-defined femininity: the possibility of motherhood. For women who suffer from a diagnosis of breast cancer, they experience bodily mutilation resulting from surgical procedures such as the mastectomy, living in an imperfect body that no longer meets the standards of bodily ideals. Biopolitics define a “positive attitude” as an ideal for “good” women and “good” patients; now they are warriors assigned to a battle where a positive attitude is what will magically turn away the sword of Damocles and overcome the ghost of cancer and death, which inhabits their imaginary. This paper seeks to reflect on the mechanisms of biopolitics and the establishment of mechanisms of symbolic violence against women, where the bodies of women, even in the process of oncological disease, is dissociated, and where submission to the “must be” and non-agency, is defined as the overarching feminine duty. |
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