This article is a balance that reviews the contributions, from different disciplines, to the knowledge about women and sexual diversity union ́s participation based on the intersections between gender, work and history in recent Argentina, with emphasis on the analysis of experiences and forms of union organization and its representation. The triggering questions that guide this work are: Which have been the main research agenda topics on gender, class and unionism in Argentina in the last 4 decades? Which are theoretical-methodological perspectives that discuss these topics? What aspects predominated in the reviewed studies and what new agendas can be proposed?
The article presents the main trends of gender-terms in sectoral collective bargaining in urban regions of Argentina. It is based on a wide range of data, drawn from the survey of collective strategies and ways of building demands carried out in agreements, semi-structured interviews, and the data produced in workshops attended by activists, militants, and union leaders. Progress will be made in the description of the main areas of demands (wage gap, violence and care) establishing the obstacles, the challenges, as well as the stray collectives of women organized in trade unions.
This article examines a set of initiatives carried out by different groups of women workers, focusing on various events in Argentine history between the late nineteenth century and the present. Based on written and visual documents that provide clues to the unionization and political practices of women workers linked to the left and Peronism in the first half of the twentieth century, and oral sources that report on collective actions undertaken in the recent past, it seeks to trace a genealogy of female participation in workers' and unemployed people's organizations. It argues that far from bursting into history in every conflictive context, women built traditions of struggle that, in a non-linear and non-univocal way, were transmitted from generation to generation, nurturing their present experiences.
In this work, the contemporary productions of two Brazilian transvestite artists and activists are put into dialogue: the singer, composer and actress Linn da Quebrada, and Vicente Perrota, clothing designer, stylist and performer. The article explores the performances and fashion shows by Perrota, a member of the Atelier Transmoras, as well as the film Bixa Travesty, the funk songs and the video clips by Linn da Quebrada. The objective is to analyze the ways in which fashion is configured in their productions as a strategy of resistance whose costumes, beauty technologies and body cosmetics hold dissident subjectivities and mobilize irreverent affects. While they recover archives and build insurrectionary communities, fashion stands as lodging, but, at the same time, as an occupation of degenerated bodies that attack sexual difference and devices such as the suit, that normalize and ensure the heterocentered regime.
In this article we share a series of reflections on the links between the production of community care from popular economy organizations and spatial dynamics, specifically considering the ways in which these relationships were put into play in the context of the pandemic. From a qualitative exploration developed during the years 2020 and 2021 we have sought to shed light on two axes of analysis: On the one hand, we inquired into the production of spatialities as part of the conditions of possibility for the development of socio-community work, considering the spatial-temporal articulation and the materialities involved. On the other hand, we seek to apprehend these cares from the movements that make them possible, considering the displacements and circulations of the people who carry out socio-community work. Recovering a series of contributions developed from feminist geography and the mobility paradigm, we will argue that the development of socio-community work practices implies intervening on the organization and uses of space, developing a complex spatio-temporal organization that blurs the boundaries between what is defined as "community" and "family" care and between "collective" care and "self-care".
This article’s aim is to explore the role of gender categorization in the diverse strategies of discipline and subjectivation which were sought to reproduce from the State Terrorism implemented during the last civilian-military-ecclesiastical dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) and its persistence in the post-dictatorship era. To that extent, the persistence of these perspectives within the listening frames in which the ex-detained-disappeared subjects testified is thoroughly analyzed, specifically those who were victims of sexual violence in the clandestine detention centers, accounting the difficulties faced in their enunciation within the legal system in the post-dictatorship era and beyond. Hence, and considering the aforementioned constructions of subjectivation and discipline, this article purports to demonstrate the curbs and the potentiality of testification as a political tool to resignify experiences in the processes of the construction of a collective memory of the genocide.
The work examines union organization with a gender perspective in four private sector unions in the city of Mar del Plata, in the last decade. It seeks to understand the barriers that women face to participate in union politics and analyze the experiences of female organization and participation, based on the struggle strategies and gender demands in the gastronomic, fillet and packaging, textile and pastry chef unions. It is based on individual and collective research that has been carried out since 2018, and on interviews, field notes and secondary sources. The article is structured in three parts. The first section refers to a brief state of the art on research linked to labor and union organization in a gender perspective today. The second addresses the problems and difficulties that women workers face when organizing politically and unionly in the four selected Mar del Plata unions. The last section highlights different strategies and gender demands carried out in the sectors studied.
Este dossier reúne cinco artículos que reflexionan sobre algunas dimensiones, problemáticas y resultados preliminares del Proyecto de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica Orientado (PICTO) en Género 2022-0003 “Género, trabajo y organización sindical en Mar del Plata, CABA y Córdoba: una contribución a la lucha por derechos en la Argentina reciente”.
What happens if we fill the streets and laughter with historicity and gender? From a feminist anthropology, I analyze the genderization process of street clown and public space, from the resurgence of the street circus in the 90s to the present in Buenos Aires. Life stories of a group of women who were pioneers in street clown are used to reflect on the way in which their subjectivities were constituted through the specific experience of occupying public space as clowns on a daily basis at a time when that was male territory. Finally, I analyze the transformations that emerged from the meeting of feminist activism and the circus since 2017 in the heat of the fight for legal abortion.
Este trabajo pretende abordar y analizar las estrategias de autofiguración autoral que se despliegan en Black out (2017) de María Moreno. Para ello, se retomarán los temas (la circulación por los bares porteños famosos de las décadas del sesenta y setenta, el consumo de alcohol, la construcción del perfil de los amigos escritores) y registros (la anécdota, el diario íntimo, la crónica) que posibilitan una particular “escritura del yo” y, con ello, la construcción de una voz autoral. Pero sobre todo se hace hincapié en la construcción identificatoria que Moreno despliega en torno a la figura de Lucio V. Mansilla y su obra Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (1870). Escribiéndose a sí misma con Mansilla y sus apostillas como referente autoral y escritural, Moreno logra, en el que pretende ser “el libro de los muchachos”, no solo reconstruir su inserción a un mundo de difícil acceso (las redacciones y mesas de bares mascultistas), sino también torcer la representación de la bebida como morada únicamente masculina para hacer ingresar en el relato a una comunidad de mujeres que han formado parte de su vida y su experiencia literaria.
