Towards a rhizomatic perspective of the medicalized Body? A Review on Medicalization and Gender

• Roso, Adriane ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

     Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Methaodos. revista de ciencias sociales, ISSN-e 2340-8413, Vol. 7, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 184-197
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.17502/m.rcs.v7i2.302
• Títulos paralelos:
  • ¿Hacia una perspectiva rizomática del cuerpo medicalizado? Una revisión sobre la medicalización y el género
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  • español

    La medicalización ha sido uno de los temas más importantes para la agenda feminista y para los estudios de género. Durante la segunda ola del feminismo, cuando los derechos sexuales y reproductivos eran las principales preocupaciones para las mujeres, es el momento exacto en cual los estudios sobre la medicalización comenzaron a aumentar. El objetivo de esta investigación es presentar algunas características de los estudios relacionados con el cuerpo medicalizado y generizado, indicando cómo se ha explicado, entendido y entrelazado el proceso de medicalización con diferentes instituciones y personas. Una preocupación principal en esta revisión es prestar atención a cómo se expresa el género en los estudios de medicalización. Dentro de un diseño cualitativo, y con el apoyo de SPSS™, construimos una revisión preliminar sobre la literatura publicada en libros, y luego desarrollamos un análisis de contenido de los capítulos sobre medicalización. Se presenta una descripción general de las características de los estudios, y después se discuten dos categorías: (a) los significados de la medicalización y (b) los cuerpos medicalizados y sus emprendedores: una expresión rizomática. Se concluyó que la tesis de medicalización debería considerarse como la línea de un “rizoma” que se conecta con diferentes actores, corporaciones y organizaciones. Al deconstruir el rizoma, la categoría analítica del género debe entenderse como una construcción sociohistórica relacionada con las relaciones de dominación y también con las de resistencia. Además, los autores que tratan sobre la medicalización deben ser sensibles a las epistemologías del Sur Global.

  • English

    Medicalization has been one of the most important topics for feminist agenda and gender studies. During the second wave of feminism, when sexual and reproductive rights were the top concerns for women, is exactly when the studies of medicalization started to grow. The goal of this research is to present some characteristics of the studies that are concerned with the gendered medicalized body by indicating how the medicalization process has been explained, understood and interlaced with different institutions and people. One main concern in this review is to pay attention to how gender is expressed in medicalization studies. Within a qualitative design, and the support of SPSS™, we constructed a mapping review on the literature published in books, and thereafter we developed a content analysis of the chapters on medicalization. An overview of the characteristics of the studies are presented, and after two categories are discussed: (a) meanings of medicalization and (b) medicalizing bodies and its entrepreneurs: a rhizomatic expression. It was concluded the medicalization thesis should be considered as one line of a “rhizome” that connects to different actors, corporations and organizations. In deconstructing the rhizome, the analytical category gender should be understood as a socio-historical construction related to relations of domination and to resistance as well. Also, the medicalization authors should be sensitive to the epistemologies of the Global South.

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