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The pedagogy of public health policies: standard and gender frictions in making bodies

This article is inspired and vitalized by our inserts in the field of public health. The paper discusses the body of political subjectivity and gender entered in the project of governmentality. The public health policies are seen as areas of teaching, acting as pedagogies engaged in shaping regulatory standards bodies marked by gender. Public policies are also thought to territories (un)learning trials in which gender and rub subvert these rules, opening bodies astray.

Governmentality; Subjectivity; Public Health Policies; Body; Gender


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