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Latin American Gender Studies
Latin American masculinity
Latin American queer studies
Latin American sexualities
Latin American social history
Migration in South America
Nationhood in Argentina
Peronism
Prostitution in Argentina
Sex Commerce
Sex work in Argentina
Sexual Trafficking
Whiteness
Women Studies in Argentina
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- ISBN 9781469681238
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2024
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Just a few years before becoming President, Juan Domingo Peron penned a letter demanding the reopening of government sponsored brothels near military bases. This, he believed, was a necessary preventative for homosexuality. His letter exemplified the then widespread panic over sexual deviance that came just a few years after a panic surrounding immigrant sexualities led to the criminalization of prostitution. In this book, available for the first time in English, Patricio Simonetto captures the anxiety, regulation, and tolerance of sex work that has defined Argentina's heterosexual and patriarchal national identity.
Consulting judicial papers, prison archives, and secret police reports, Simonetto illustrates the state's authoritarian, violent, and moralistic interventions against dissident sexualities and how they transcended political shifts across liberal and military governments. He narrates the life stories of those who offered, exploited, or were consumers of sex work and draws connections between sex work, government policy, and Argentina's economy. This impressive study provides a lens into the ever-shifting constructions of heteronormative masculinities that produced political agendas and social hierarchies that continue to influence Argentina today.
Consulting judicial papers, prison archives, and secret police reports, Simonetto illustrates the state's authoritarian, violent, and moralistic interventions against dissident sexualities and how they transcended political shifts across liberal and military governments. He narrates the life stories of those who offered, exploited, or were consumers of sex work and draws connections between sex work, government policy, and Argentina's economy. This impressive study provides a lens into the ever-shifting constructions of heteronormative masculinities that produced political agendas and social hierarchies that continue to influence Argentina today.
Patricio Simonetto is lecturer in gender and social policy at the University of Leeds. He is author of A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina.
Sarah Booker is a translator, editor, and educator living in Morganton, North Carolina. She is translator of works by Cristina Rivera Garza, Monica Ojeda, and Gabriela Ponce.
Sarah Booker is a translator, editor, and educator living in Morganton, North Carolina. She is translator of works by Cristina Rivera Garza, Monica Ojeda, and Gabriela Ponce.
