Abstract

COLLIGNON GORIBAR, María Martha  and  LAZO CORVERA, Paola. Derechos humanos/sexuales, género y biopolítica: reflexiones sobre la configuración subjetiva del derecho a la libre elección de identidad de género. La ventana [online]. 2017, vol.5, n.45, pp.50-87. ISSN 1405-9436.

This article presents an analytical discussion regarding the relationship between gender, Human Rights expressed as Sexual Rights and biopolitcs on the subjective configuration of women, questioning at the same time the need to discuss, in the frame of Social Sciences and the studies of identity and subjectivity, the potential explanatory force of gender as an analytical category, in order to make visible the configuration processes of subjects that are immerse on the conquest of their freedom to determine their own gender identity in the frame of their right of gender and sex diversity in contemporary societies. The analysis is based upon some preliminary findings of an on-going doctoral research of particular study cases of women3 in search of exercising their Sexual Rights in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara.

Keywords : sexual rights; gender; biopolitcs; subjective configuration; and women.