Society, phobias, and diferences

Abstract

This essay had as object of analysis the ‘gender identities/sexuality’, from issues of the so-called ‘customs agenda’, in the 21st  century. The discussion proposed here is  articulated to the social needs of health in  the vast Brazilian territory. The thought of  Foucault, Butler, Derrida, and other authors   of the ‘post-structuralist’ spectrum, are  used to reflect on the relationship between  identity and difference, and its impact on  the control over bodies, in a continuous  discriminatory process with the  perpetuation of the cycles of violence and  exclusion.