AS ESCRITAS, O GÊNERO E A DISTRIBUIÇÃO DA AGÊNCIA NO DISPOSITIVO BANHEIRO PÚBLICO DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA

Abstract

This article departs from the Foucauldian archeogenealogy and the debates that relate gender and neomaterialism to analyze the writings of the restrooms at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), having in mind the production of the writings as part of the production of a masculine and a feminine, inside public restroom apparatus.  The corpus is formed by 74 images, taken in June 2022 and January 2023, of bathrooms located in the University Library and the Communication and Expression Center, both of the UFSC. It was noted that restrooms writings are part of a discursive ecology in which human agents - such as gendred and racialized subjects - and non-human agents, such as the architecture and even the bodily fluids found in the research, are in association. Our analyses also show that there is a differential production in the men's and women's restrooms, which concerns mainly the strategies and the visibility of sexuality and politics. Finally, we could conclude, in relation to classic literature in Brazil, that there is a permanence of certain gendric discursive practices, in general, even if some not irrelevant displacements can be noticed.