Minding the body, sexing the brain: hormonal truth and the post-feminist hermeneutics of adolescence

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

Pedro Pinto (Author) Other; Conceicao Nogueira (Author) FPCEUP; Joao Oliveira (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Feminist Theory

Vol. 13 No. 3

Pages: 305-323

ISSN: 1464-7001

Publisher: SAGE

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Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Sociology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-2T0

DOI: 10.1177/1464700112456006

Abstract (EN): 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 main-streaming 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.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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No. of pages: 19