Abstract
This article is the result of research carried out in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It analyses the relationships between the central epistemological definitions of gynaecology as a medical speciality, the clinical practices that take place in clinics and the corporealities of cis women. Gynaecology is a particularly dense speciality, constituted in the interweaving of multiple and heterogeneous processes such as state regulations, sex-gender regulations, circulation of different instruments and objects. The article analyses three “gynaecological condensations”: 1) The production of “women’s integral health” as a clinical object; 2) the modulation of cis-women’s bodily processes in “life cycles” organised in a reproductive key; 3) the normative effects of the preventive emphasis characteristic of gynaecology. Identified with Social Studies in Science and Technology, the methodological strategy consists of analysing a set of heterogeneous materials and the situated elaboration of categories.
Keywords:
gynecological condensations; sex-generic regulations; comprehensive women’s health in Argentina; social studies in science and technology