THE PERFORMATIVITY OF FEMALE BODIES THAT DO NOT SILENCE:

THE INDEXICALIZATIONS OF FIBROMYALGIA

Abstract

The female subjective constitution – therefore discursive – historically required various forms of resistance to take place in the social world, which produced suffering or were produced by pain. Unresolved by the medical discourse, Fibromyalgia, a painful syndrome that predominantly affects women, seems to represent the body that resists and does not conform – in a game of power relations, of discourses that are always in dispute. The performativity of women with fibromyalgia in the discourses in which they are constituted can signal what the body seems not to want to silence, although medicalization intends to do so. These signals can be understood to some extent as discursive indexicalizations in the broad sense, beyond linguistic forms in the strict sense, insofar as they point to discourses about what it is to be a woman and what a woman can be