La amistad como forma de vidaGénero, sexualidad, diversidad relacional y el problema del parentesco

Resum

This doctoral thesis proposes an approach to the concept of friendship from a queer feminist perspective with the aim of thinking about collective ways of life that can offer an alternative to the current context of frailty of human bonds beyond a return to the family as the only refuge of recognition and support. This work starts from the study of the resignification of social bonds that can be done from the characteristic "heterotopicdrive" of dissident experiences of sexual normativity. Firstly, this work analyzes the social implications of kinship in relation to the production of gender, the heterosexual norm, and the organization of affective life to deepen the issue of that experience. Secondly, the research focuses on discourses of friendship historically linked to queer cultures, especially on those that are based on the rejection of "relational comfort" and assimilation —while recognizing the importance of claiming the right to access dominant ways of life. Finally, critical friendship-centred non-monogamous / polyamorous discourses are investigated, finding in them common elements with queer discourses on this form of intimacy, that is, the rejection of the hierarchical order of affective and sexual life that elevates the partner and mistrust the limitations of identity-based politics. This research proposes an approach to the discourses of friendship that areproduced from the inadequacy of sexual, relational or gender normativity to identify their limits and potentialities for the redefinition of social bonds, which, in contrast to discriminatory approaches, would be aimed at the expansion of the frameworks that allow the recognition of different ways of life.