O dispositivo microprotético DIU e seu regime tecnobiodiscursivo: discursos das e sobre as mulheres cisgênero adeptas ao DIU

Abstract

In this article, it is discussed about part of a reflection that makes up the master's thesis defended in 2021 xxxxxxxxx. The research objective, under the gaze of Foucaultian archeogenealogy, articulated to the agentive biopolitics of Paul Preciado (2018), to the writings of Takeshita (2012) and to feminist and gender studies, was to analyze the discourses about and by women who inserted (or who intend to insert or who have tried and failed) the copper Intrauterine Device (IUD). Special attention is given to the analysis of semi-structured interviews carried out with five self-declared cisgender women, specifically the discursive regularities: (i) about “being a woman”; (ii) about resistance to the pill's microphysical control and the desire for the IUD liberogen device; (iii) about social and family relationships as part of the IUD device functioning; and (iv) about doctors and nursing operating on the control and on the subjectivation of women's bodies. Pointing out the discursive regularities, it is argued that the functioning of the IUD microprosthetic device, which, in agonistic terms, it is raised to the effects of freedom, of nature and of empowerment to the women who use it (or who want it); while it produces, on and about them, objectification and subjectivation marks that forge techno-organic and techno-biodiscursive corporeities, established by the pharmacopornographic era.