Description
Book SynopsisA 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 ho
Table of Contents
- A Note to the Reader
- Introduction. In the Flesh of (National) History
- Chapter 1. Cut from a Different Cloth: Gender Transgressions in the Early Twentieth Century
- Chapter 2. The Body I Was Born In: Governing Sex and Embodiment Repertoires during the Era of the Biomedical Transition
- Chapter 3. Queens in the Theaters and the Streets: The Global Making of Travestis’ Popular Culture and Everyday Technologies
- Chapter 4. Living Laboratories: Travesti/Trans Knowledge and Homemade Technologies
- Chapter 5. The Carnal Revolution: Trans Citizenship and the Limits of Democratic Transition
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
