Abstract

SILVA, MARLON SILVEIRA DA; CAETANO, MARCIO  and  SOARES, MARIA DA CONCEIÇÃO SILVA. The invention of inversion: science, education and lesbianity. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.67, pp.1681-1705.  Epub Dec 31, 2020. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.20.067.ds09.

In the Brazil Republican, hygienist and eugenicist project, several speeches defended the school and the family as pedagogical spaces for sexual formation. To do so, one of his biopolitical strategies of governance was to produce knowledge about women. Considering this scenario, our objective is to analyze the scientific discourses on female homosexuality produced between the 1920s and 50s. We are interested in analyzing the representations that are present in these discourses and that contributed to the invention of what was assimilated as the inverted sexual and/or homosexual female. To this end, the contributions of Documentary Analyses and Foucaultian - based Discourses were fundamental in examining publications aimed at identifying, typifying, and determining preventive or curative educational practices for “female homosexualism”. With the data, it was observed that the pathological status of female homosexuality when discussing its origin, prevention and cure, there were substantial differences between scientists and the position of the psychiatrist Iracy Doyle, author of the first book on the subject in Brazil. Even attributing the title of "problem" to homosexuality, Doyle's contributions presented female sexual inversion as an alternative for women to break with the passive condition of wives and mothers. This interpretation was contrary to the other scientists who committed themselves to studying female homosexuality, who, in their speeches, strengthened the attributions of roles guided by biological differences, reinforcing the social representations of men and women.

Keywords : Gender; Sexualities; Lesbianity; Social Regulation.

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