[Commlist] CFP Hegemonic definitions, resistances and corporeal identities: Bodies from/against biomedical boundaries

Journal: Recerca. Revista de pensament i Anàlisi

CFP: Hegemonic definitions, resistances and corporeal identities: Bodies 
from/against biomedical boundaries

Editors: Emma Gómez Nicolau (Universitat Jaume I) and Arantxa Grau Muñoz 
(Universitat de València)

Submission deadline: 15 February, 2021

Publication: April 2022

Perceptions and uses of the body correspond to both cultural parameters 
and historical contingencies. However, many of these endeavours to 
socially contextualise the body are premised on the understanding of the 
body as a natural fact. The body-organism is presented from the 
legitimating position of biological facts––anatomical, endocrinological, 
immunological, and so on––until it becomes a self-evident entity. Our 
interpretations and perceptions of the body, but also our image of its 
composition, are mediated by the biomedical sciences as legitimate 
devices for producing scientific knowledge about the body.
The feminist perspective on biomedical sciences has helped to uncover 
how this technological device invades the social construction of the 
body by denoting “sex” as the fundamental criterion to explain corporeal 
differentiation. “Sex” is described as an attribute of the body- 
organism that corresponds to biological and chemical principles, any 
variations in which are regarded as an anomaly and/or a pathology. Sex 
has become a technological device designed to explain and justify 
corporeal differentiation by highlighting differences (organs, hormones, 
etc.) and ignoring similarities. This process serves as a normative 
matrix in the decodification of these bodies. Male and female bodies 
must necessarily match the bimorphism determined by the biomedical 
sciences, anatomy loses its descriptive purpose to become a prescriptive 
science, and it reaches beyond the field of biomedical intervention to 
invade the sphere of social identity.
This edition of Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Análisi provides a space 
to explore approaches from sociology, philosophy, ethics and other 
related disciplines that analyse experiences and processes of this 
western hegemonic definition of the gendered body and how it affects 
social experiences and identities. We are especially interested in 
analysis of the processes of the diverse corporeal itineraries that 
resist, subvert and destabilise the hegemonic biomedical paradigm, and 
of the processes of corporeal decodification that contravene the 
hegemonic definitions of the gendered body.
We propose the following topics:
• Biomedical definitions of the body and biomedical practices in 
producing gender.
• Identity and biomedical interventions on the body: hormone treatment, 
surgery and other body modification techniques.
• The “hormonal factor”: hypervisibility, risks and attributions of 
hormones in configuring health and identities.
• The gendered body in health/illness processes.
• Bodies and fluids: gender signs and foundations for sexual bimorphism.

No payment from authors is expected. Further information regarding 
Recerca and the instructions for submitting original manuscripts can be 
consulted at https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/recerca/index 
<https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/recerca/index>

Please, write (enicolau /at/ uji.es) <mailto:(enicolau /at/ uji.es)> if you require 
any additional explanation.


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