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El recorrido histórico de este libro visibiliza, en diferentes contextos, la presencia escénica de cuestionamientos al binarismo de género imperante y destaca un elemento ignorado por las historias teatrales hasta el presente: la emergencia de la disidencia sexual en las artes escénicas durante los años 60 y sus intentos por desplazarse de la patologización de décadas anteriores. Del mismo modo, propone reconocer los procesos de censura y la obstaculización a la visibilidad pública de las sexualidades disidentes en los discursos teatrales del período. A través del estudio de las experiencias producidas en los escenarios porteños, Ezequiel Lozano argumenta que durante esa década se opera una transformación novedosa en las artes escénicas que visibiliza la disidencia sexual de un modo nuevo, discretamente revolucionario respecto de la transformación de las normas afectivo-sexuales, pero transformador en lo que se refiere al pasaje desde matrices de representación heterosexistas hacia discursos teatrales que visibilizan otras sexualidades posibles fuera de la (hetero)norma.

A history of Argentina that examines how trans bodies were understood, policed, and shaped in a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives. As a trans history of Argentina, a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives, A Body of One's Own places the histories of trans bodies at the core of modern Argentinian history. Patricio Simonetto documents the lives of people who crossed the boundaries of gender from the early twentieth century to the present. Based on extensive archival research in public and community-based archives, this book explores the mainstream medical and media portrayals of trans or travesti people, the state policing of gender embodiment, the experiences of those transgressing the boundaries of gender, and the development of homemade technologies from prosthetics to the self-injection of silicone. A Body of One's Own explores how trans activists'challenges to the exclusionary effects of Argentina's legal, cultural, social, and political cisgender order led to the passage of the Gender Identity Law in 2012. Analyzing the decisive yet overlooked impact of gender transformation in the formation of the nation-state, gender-belonging, and citizenship, this book ultimately shows that supposedly abstract struggles to define the shifting notions of'sex,'citizenship, and nationhood are embodied material experiences.

No hablamos de arte aquí si no de un campo experimental donde nos construimos y deconstruimos, donde irrumpe lo que desde una mirada cisheteronormativa nunca fuimos: seres hechos de una vez para siempre, sino pura experiencia.

A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them “Conniff brings her skills and insights to a particularly urgent project: moving beyond the polarizing politics of our current era, and taking a deeper look at how people who have been pitted against each other can forge bonds of understanding.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., co-author of 100% DemocracyWinner of the Studs and Ida Terkel AwardIn the Midwest, Mexican workers have become critically important to the survival of rural areas and small towns—and to the individual farmers who rely on their work—with undocumented immigrants, mostly from Mexico, accounting for an estimated 80 percent of employees on the dairy farms of western Wisconsin. In Milked, former editor-in-chief of The Progressive Ruth Conniff introduces us to the migrants who worked on these dairy farms, their employers, among them white voters who helped elect Donald Trump to office in 2016, and the surprising friendships that have formed between these two groups of people. These stories offer a rich and fascinating account of how two crises—the record-breaking rate of farm bankruptcies in the Upper Midwest, and the contentious politics around immigration—are changing the landscape of rural America. A unique and fascinating exploration of rural farming communities, Milked sheds light on seismic shifts in policy on both sides of the border over recent decades, connecting issues of labor, immigration, race, food, economics, and U.S.-Mexico relations and revealing how two seemingly disparate groups of people have come to rely on each other, how they are subject to the same global economic forces, and how, ultimately, the bridges of understanding that they have built can lead us toward a more constructive politics and a better world.

Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. From the repression of military dictatorships to the precarity of economic crises, contemporary dancers and audiences consistently responded to and reimagined the everyday choreographies that have accompanied Argentina's volatile political history. The titular concept,'moving otherwise'names how both concert dance and its off-stage practice and consumption offer alternatives to and modes to critique the patterns of movement and bodily comportment that shape everyday life in contexts marked by violence. Drawing on archival research based in institutional and private collections, over fifty interviews with dancers and choreographers, and the author's embodied experiences as a collaborator and performer with active groups, the book analyzes how a wide range of practices moved otherwise, including concert works, community dance initiatives, and the everyday labor that animates dance. It demonstrates how these diverse practices represent, resist, and remember violence and engender new forms of social mobilization on and off the theatrical stage. As the first book length critical study of Argentine contemporary dance, it introduces a breadth of choreographers to an English speaking audience, including Ana Kamien, Susana Zimmermann, Estela Maris, Alejandro Cervera, Renate Schottelius, Susana Tambutti, Silvia Hodgers, and Silvia Vladimivsky. It also considers previously undocumented aspects of Argentine dance history, including crossings between contemporary dancers and 1970s leftist political militancy, Argentine dance labor movements, political protest, and the prominence of tango themes in contemporary dance works that address the memory of political violence. Contemporary dance, the book demonstrates, has a rich and diverse history of political engagement in Argentina.

The appearance of sound film boosted entertainment circuits around the world, drawing cultural cartographies that forged images of spaces, nations and regions. By the late 1920s and early ‘30s, film played a key role in the configuration of national and regional cultural identities in incipient mass markets. Over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this transmedia logic not only went unthreatened, but also intensified with the arrival of new media and the development of new technologies. In this respect, this book strikes a dialogue between analyses that reflect the flows and transits of music, films and artists, mainly in the Ibero-American space, although it also features essays on Soviet and Asian cinema, with a view to exploring the processes of configuration of cultural identities. As such, this work views national borders as flexible spaces that permit an exploration of the appearance of transversal relations that are part of broader networks of circulation, as well as economic, social and political models beyond the domestic sphere.

What articulations between bodies, genders and desires are required socio-culturally for recognition of what is human? What happens with those people who do not meet the heteronormative criteria of intelligible life? Are psychology and medicine part of the solution, or part of the problem?This pioneering book presents a novel analysis of transgender constructions within a clinical setting, examining the experiences of'transsexuality in treatment'interpreted through psychological, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theories. Based on research that includes interviews with the clinic's professionals and users, notes from its group therapy sessions, and analysis of its manuals and scientific productions, the author shows how the psychological sciences not only'treat'transsexuality, but construct it in each of its elements: corporality, sexuality, identity, performances and vulnerability. Looking at the work of philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Paul B. Preciado, this book also highlights how the productive character of language and other subjectifying technologies are linked to the symbolic and material violence that falls on these bodies, deconstructing the bio-scientific and sociocultural conceptions that nourish the understanding of trans life experiences that are medicalised and psychopathologised.No Body is a valuable book for students, researchers and professionals in critical psychology, psychiatry and social sciences, and anyone interested in the fields of transsexuality and homo/transphobia, feminism and queer theory, discourse analysis and the construction and signification of the body, gender and sexualities.

Temas como el género y la sexualidad lograron una visibilidad tal en la agenda pública que sólo registramos su actualidad inmediata, como si no tuvieran historia o como si ella se remontara apenas a pocas décadas atrás. Esta obra recupera experiencias libertarias que hace más de un siglo desafiaron formas de la intimidad, el amor y la pareja afianzadas por el Estado o la Iglesia. Así, expone el ideario del anarquismo en la Argentina, que luchaba para transformar las relaciones económicas y políticas, pero también las familiares y afectivas. Sus militantes buscaron el fin del matrimonio, que veían como una forma de prostitución y esclavitud, e imaginaron amores libres en que, sin mandatos a eternidad, hombres y mujeres exploraban relaciones múltiples, simultáneas, con la premisa de un encuentro pleno y consensuado entre iguales. Con formidable pulso narrativo, la autora traza un panorama atrapante de los debates y las vivencias de quienes, en pos de la revolución social, encontraron formas novedosas de vivir su identidad, el amor y el erotismo. Vemos entonces a mujeres que, en 1896 y en los años de'la Patagonia trágica', sostuvieron la denuncia contra la violencia que sufrían en las fábricas tanto como en sus hogares. También las peripecias de una colonia anarquista en Brasil, donde un trío practicó en 1890 la versión más audaz del amor libre. O a un destacado ácrata que celebró como triunfo de la libertad sexual el adulterio de su joven esposa, mientras otras voces del anarquismo se asustaban de las mujeres liberadas y deseantes. Lejos de una complacencia facilista o de un anacronismo que aplane el espesor de cada coyuntura, este libro expone la enorme potencia pero también las contradicciones de esas expresiones, que cuestionaban todos los parámetros morales, pero consideraban que el aborto o la homosexualidad eran excesos que evitar. Con rigor y frescura, recorre una historia poco conocida, que aporta perspectiva para ponderar las mutaciones del presente.