This article analyzes the production of certain femininities by looking at the tensions between pleasure and affection arising from the sexual biographies of 18 black and white-mestizo women, of different social classes, skin color, sexual orientation, generation, age, marital status, and offspring contemporary south-western Colombia. Four typologies constructed by this investigation reveal the rising role of pleasure in the conformation of contemporary subjectivities. Results are discussed in a Foucaultian perspective, with the tools of radical feminism, queer theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis. This sociological analysis also benefits from Afro-American feminism. Using feminist intersectionality theory, it pays particular attention to the role of racialization, by articulating the sexual and racial experience of black interviewees.
Femininity; subjectivity; pleasure; affection; racialization