A History Without Binaries? Queer and Trans Histories of Gender Transgression in Argentina
Inalco Foundation, with the support of the Rothschild Foundation - Alain de Rothschild Institute, is offering a series of conferences on sexual and gender-based violence around the world. In 2023-2024, the theme of the cycle is "The construction of gender, beyond binarity".
This presentation explores the challenges of writing histories of gender non-conformity. Focusing on the cases of maricas, invertidos sexuales, and mujeres hombres in the early twentieth century in Argentina opens questions about the methodological challenges of narrating lives that moved and transgressed what was socially defined as gender. Dr Simonetto engages with the overlapping queer and trans histories of Argentina to open questions about how lives of gender-nonconformity have been archived and the legacies of their memories in the present.
About the speaker
Patricio Simonetto is a Lecturer in Gender and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on the queer histories of Latin America. He is the author of Entre la injuria y la revolución. El Frente de Liberación Homosexual en la Argentina (UNQ, 2017), El dinero no es todo. La compra y venta de sexo en la Argentina del siglo XX (Biblos, 2019) and Money is Not Everything. The Purchase and Sale of Sex in Argentina in the Twentieth Century (The Univesity of North Carolina, 2024). He was awarded the Carlos Monsivais Prize from the Latin American Studies Association in 2021.
A preparatory conference with students will take place in room 5.22 from 4:30 to 5:30 pm.
Contacts
- Elisa Carandina - elisa.carandina@inalco.fr
- Fondation Inalco - fondation@inalco.fr
About Rothschild Foundation - Alain de Rothschild Institute
Chaired by Eric de Rothschild, the Rothschild Foundation - Alain de Rothschild Institute provides financial, material and moral support to around a hundred projects a year in all areas of public interest. In a society weakened by inequality, its many philanthropic initiatives are particularly focused on culture, education, the environment and healthcare. The company stands out for its ability to take action on major social issues. Its two main areas of action are the fight against racism and anti-Semitism, and solidarity with the most vulnerable. For the Rothschild Foundation - Alain de Rothschild Institute, the partnership with Inalco and the Inalco Foundation represents a first opportunity to work with a national academic institution on the major social issue of gender studies.
