A fixação e a transitoriedade do gênero molecular

Giving Meaning to Teachers’ Discourses Related to Biology Knowledge From Feminist Epistemologies

“…The participant reproduces the passive female/aggressive male dualism, with a language marked by humanization of the animals' behavior, as if the animals were aware of their "choices" and justifying aggressiveness by referring to the testosterone action. In addition, the discourse places testosterone only in male individuals, evoking the idea of "sexual hormones" observed at the beginning of the studies on these substances, which was discarded (reluctantly) later, when the presence of such hormones was admitted in female and male organisms (Saini, 2018;Tramontano, 2017). According to Tramontano (2017, p. 180), "in practice, these hormones convert easily into one another", and this delimitation and separation is not as strict as it appears in certain scientific discourses.…”

“…Thus, using hormones to explain men's and women's behavior is a recurrent discourse in science, one that has appeared since the beginning of studies on hormones. Tramontano (2017) explained that when ascribing the basis of differences between men and women to hormones, these molecules were gendered, the action of the so-called male and female sexual hormones starts to be understood according to social characteristics ascribed to women and men, "testosterone effects are fast and incisive, determining the aggressiveness and practicality ascribed to men, while estrogen acts more discre-tely and with less visibility, simulating the female passiveness and kindness" (Tramontano, 2017, p. 167). Saini (2018, p. 34) discussed the association of hormones to behavior and exemplified with an article published in 1930, in which men that were subjected to hormonal treatment with testosterone reported feeling more vigorous and energetic, this type of discourse reinforced the idea that testosterone was linked to characteristics ascribed to men such as "aggressiveness, physical strength, superior intellect, and virility".…”

Em Outra Voz: práticas e tecnologias biomédicas de generificação

“…O hormônio andrógino é um artefato médico e, ao mesmo tempo, um hormônio secretado "naturalmente pelo corpo", como repetem os profissionais de saúde. As concepções de um corpo hormonal e o gênero como mensageiro químico florescem na virada do século XX (Oudshoorn, 1994;Rohden, 2008;Tramontano, 2017a).…”

"Me sinto outra pessoa": testemunhos de transformação via modulação hormonal bioidêntica

“…Nessa direção, os hormônios parecerem funcionar como mediadores (LATOUR, 2012) que, muito além de substâncias químicas, associam informações reveladoras sobre nossa sociedade, no que se refere ao gênero, à idade, à ILHA -REVISTA DE ANTROPOLOGIA Florianópolis, v. 25, n. 1, e85477, p. 199-217, janeiro de 2023saúde, etc. (OUDSHOORN, 1994ROBERTS, 2007;ROHDEN, 2008;ALZUGUIR, 2016;EDMONDS;SANABRIA, 2016;FARO;RUSSO, 2017;MANICA;NUCCI;2017;TRAMONTANO, 2017;ROHDEN, 2018;JORDAN-YOUNG;KARKAZIS, 2019). Essa proposta analítica segue na linha dos estudos que têm demonstrado com os hormônios têm sido apresentados, ao longo de sua história de descoberta nas primeiras décadas do século XX até os mais recentes achados científicos e proposições terapêuticas, como entidades capazes de sintetizar muitas das perspectivas em voga acerca do funcionamento corporal e tantas outras consequências em termos de saúde, bem-estar, adoecimento.…”