Bodies, spaces and, violence(s) in Modern Biopolitical Regimes On fag and homosexuals inhabit "The Feminine”

Abstract

This paper analyses the construction of the artifact "feminine", the creation of the homosexual identity, and the diverse forms of gender base violence(s) from the formation and consolidation of the European nation-states and the nineteenth-century forms of imperialism. Based upon a dialogue between femi-nist geopolitics, queer theory, and postcolonial thought, we paper analyze the political fictions of identities –nationality, citizenship, masculinity, femininity and the third sex-, as violent artifacts, as tools of domesticity, and as creators of inequalities.

From a genealogical style, we propose "the feminine" as a large space inhabit by everybody who lacks the characteristics of the modern masculinity. This analysis in different times and spaces of modernity examines how technologies of sex, race and body shape people’s experience of inequality and violence, legitimizing spatial hierarchies that consolidate Western hegemony and forms of the knowledge-power. We pay attentions to the political and discursive processes through are bodies and identities built. The focus is on modern biopolitical regimes, the actions to tame, to grippe and to discipline the life and bodies of population. In short, we address how the normalization and the otherness generate violence(s) toward people identified as no men: women, homosexual, lesbian, fag, transexual and foreigners; the inhabit of the feminine.