Patricio Simonetto
(Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of the Americas, UCL)
Simonetto will be analysing the early making of sex change in Argentina during the first decades of the twentieth century. It focuses on the embodiment of a new gender before the popularization of biotechnological procedures, as hormones that emerged in the 1930s or surgeries in the 1960s when embodiment was built mostly over clothing and gestures. To understand the building of sex change, the text reconstructs multiple layers as the medical discourses, artistic spectacles, newspaper articles, as well as, personal trajectories of people that changed their sex. By analysing a robust corpus that includes personal photographs, forged documents, personal letters, scientific articles, among others, it provides an understanding of how people could achieve a new gender but negotiation degrees of social and cultural recognition. In contrast with previous literature on the argentine history of sexuality, it points out how studying gender transgressions offers a crucial insight to the meaning of sex and the role it played in the context of the national modernization. By considering both male and female sex change replace the centrality on the body in the affirmation of gender beyond identities.
(Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of the Americas, UCL)
Simonetto will be analysing the early making of sex change in Argentina during the first decades of the twentieth century. It focuses on the embodiment of a new gender before the popularization of biotechnological procedures, as hormones that emerged in the 1930s or surgeries in the 1960s when embodiment was built mostly over clothing and gestures. To understand the building of sex change, the text reconstructs multiple layers as the medical discourses, artistic spectacles, newspaper articles, as well as, personal trajectories of people that changed their sex. By analysing a robust corpus that includes personal photographs, forged documents, personal letters, scientific articles, among others, it provides an understanding of how people could achieve a new gender but negotiation degrees of social and cultural recognition. In contrast with previous literature on the argentine history of sexuality, it points out how studying gender transgressions offers a crucial insight to the meaning of sex and the role it played in the context of the national modernization. By considering both male and female sex change replace the centrality on the body in the affirmation of gender beyond identities.
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