Open-access Surviving and enduring the body

Abstract:

This article presents an analysis of the production of discourses on climacteric or perimenopause in private Chilean clinics, from a feminist perspective, considering the conceptual and methodological frameworks of Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA) and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). The corpus consisted of eight web pages from Chilean private clinics. The quantitative salience points to a pathologization, and in the contextual dimension, discursive strategies of essentialization are identified, justifying the pathologization, medicalization, and commodification of the bodies of women categorized as climacteric. Biomedical statements reveal symbolic structures that situate women in a liminal territory between nature and disease, consistent with an ideological discourse centered on their reproductive power.

Keywords:
Critical Medical Anthropology; Feminism; Critical Discourse Studies; Health Commodification; Climacteric

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