Abstract

COELHO, Salomé. Towards a queer feminism: Beatriz Preciado and pornography as pre-texts. Ex aequo [online]. 2009, n.20, pp.29-40. ISSN 0874-5560.

With the emergency of dissident feminisms, the political subject of the hegemonic feminism is placed under suspicion. If, until then, the category of woman was relatively stable to the hegemonic feminism, incorporating and assuming a political biological woman subject, from the west, middle-class, white and heterosexual (silencing other subjectivities), with the criticism introduced by the dissident feminisms, this universal and naturalised category will be the target of deep decentralisations or de-territorialisations. Such de-territorialisations (discursive, geographical or bio-political/in own body) appear, among others, from critical speeches from post-modernism, post-feminism, black feminisms, post-colonial, gay and lesbian theoreticians, sexual workers or porno actresses that bring to light with categories such as race, ethnic group, sexual orientation, heteronormativity - the complexity and multiplicity of different types of oppression. Assuming the sexuality theory(ies) of Beatriz Preciado (2002) published in the Manifiesto Contra-Sexual and using the issues about pornography in the feminist movements, this article aims to be a pre-text of the reclaimed reflexive confrontation, to the feminisms, by the challenges placed by queer approaches.

Keywords : (hetero)sexual technologies; feminisms; queer studies; counter-sexuality; (post)pornography.

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