Minding the body, sexing the brain

Hormonal truth and the post-feminist hermeneutics of adolescence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4367474
AutoresPedro Pinto (0000-0002-8063-0066, University of Minho, autor correspondente), Maria Da Conceição De Oliveira Carvalho Nogueira (0000-0002-9152-754X, Centre of Psychology – University of Porto, Portugal), Conceição Nogueira, João Manuel De Oliveira (0000-0002-2793-2946, Universidade do Porto), João Oliveira (0000-0003-2429-7032, Centre of Psychology – University of Porto, Portugal)
Ano2012
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas305-323
Data de publicação2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700112456006
OpenAlexW2319214697
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas43

Drawing on feminist and queer epistemologies, this article is concerned with the post-feminist media's construction of girls' sexual subjecthood. Broadly defined as a biopolitical ideal, post-feminism is here related to a set of principles of the neoliberal art of government. It will be argued that these principles ethically sustain the exponential mainstreaming of a post-feminist hermeneutics of adolescence and its programme of governmentality. The article also links post-feminism to a particular methodology of subjectification, ultimately locating its hermeneutics of adolescence within the pornographic and pharmacological imperatives of contemporary capitalism. On the empirical level, the analysis explores how techno-scientific discourses and bodily figurations (namely brains and hormones) enter the discursive apparatus of a Portuguese girls' magazine, giving ideological ground to a distinctive production of adolescent body-subjects. Post-feminist media markets are finally discussed as a significant segment of the capitalist industrialisation of sexual difference that frames the general problematic of this study

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