Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Presented at session 12th May 1948

This article aims to make visible the construction of gender stereotypes and their reproduction in children in the Libertad neighborhood in the city of Mar del Plata in order to identify the heteronorm discourses and practices, and the meanings and significance of gender and children, that circulate in territorial institutions. The challenge is to rethink children as subjects of rights, and gender stereotypes as public policy, framed in a local, regional and Latin American context. Although there is interest in territorial actors on the subject of gender, it is not linked to the age range mentioned, nor has it been formalized in documents or articles, which is why this work is a pioneer in the study of these categories in the Libertad neighborhood. The study is part of an exploratory-descriptive research, in pursuit of a broad and representative view, which took into account the plurality of voices, through observation and in-depth interviews with various organizations. Likewise, it is worth noting that this study was constructed within the framework of my thesis for the degree in Social Work at the National University of Mar Del Plata.

Since the advance of the feminist movements, important social transformations have taken place, including the installation in the public agenda of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (VPI) as a right and collective health issue. However, these advances are produced with difficulties, setbacks and struggles between antagonistic social sectors, which allows us to affirm that sexuality and reproduction are not private fields of dispute but public ones, in which sex-gender power relations are played out. The work proposes a series of reflections on the IVE and the mandate of obligatory maternity from a perspective in which a socio-historical perspective is interwoven with the current debates on legal, safe and free abortion. In particular, it develops the category of maternity as a biopolitical device for the production of a subjectivity subordinated to patriarchal mandates, whose correlate is the body as a territory in dispute, and then considers the abortion within the field of reproductive rights. Finally, a reflection is made on the category of life from a position that transcends the biological, making visible that the conditions for human life are predominantly social.

In this article we aim to approach a qualitative research articulated between the space as a phenomenon socially elaborated, as well as it reveals power and domination dynamics, and a gender perspective focused on masculinity analysis. We have taken graffities located in La Plata city which contains football expressions, taking those devices like social practices that produce the space and also legitimate hegemonic logics. Our analysis was focused on the implicit senses in that legends and images found in those interventions, from a gender perspective. We expose space and gender concepts as performative categories that prescribes ways to be and live in this world. Our main hypothesis sustains that space production strengthens a sense system that we identify as “hegemonic masculinity”.

The concept of intersectionality is positioned from the seventies of the twentieth century and its appropriation comes from the criticism made by the Multiracial American Feminist Movements to observe how the legal system neglects the claims, especially of black women, exposed to the violence and social exclusion. In this sense, the purpose of this article is to observe the applicability of the concept of intersectionality as a theoretical body that allows identifying the different social demands in Latin America from which ethnic minority Afro-descendant groups have had to enforce in order to give their voice of alert against different violent manifestations that have oppressed them and that have occurred for many years in countries like Colombia. In order to achieve this objective, it is necessary to know the origin of the concept of intersectionality and the influence of women in this historical process, who have identified and united the different forms of social exclusion, as well as the way in which their social claims must be heard to achieve greater legal equity as citizens of a rule of law.

This work is part of the Research Project "Sexual issue, social issue. Links between institutions and sexual diversities". The methodology of this study prioritizes qualitative strategies, based on the paradigm of the course of life and the notions of memory. The aim is to describe and analyze the facts recalled in different interviews carried out with a group of people with non heteronormative sex-gender orientations, representative of their passage through different instances of school institutions. The school institution constitutes one of the first areas of socialization of the childhood and one of the main ones in the adolescence. The reconstruction, through the stories, of the passage through these school spaces shows the impact on the construction of identity, at the same time, that they reveal difficulties or facilities for the different margins of sex-gender choice.

The work presents some characteristics of the study of sexual dissidences in Argentina from three perspectives: the socio-political, the identity and the formative. In the first of these topics, the relationship between dissident sexual-gender orientation and the apprehension of subjects to a unique and exclusive sexual order is addressed; in the second, the same is done with the characteristics that heterosexist dependence introduces in the identities of people who lodge their desires in those sexual orientations located outside heterosexuality; and, in the last one, the ways in which contents related to sexual dissidences are addressed and omitted in the disciplinary training of Social Work professionals are presented and analyzed. Each one of the axes is analyzed in the light of the notion of emancipation to reflect on the achievements and pending aspects that are presented as challenges in professional training.

Social protest, like all public enunciation, has the inherent capacity to modify the symbolic configuration in the field in which it occurs. In this sense, the constitution of the protest for the human right to abortion in Argentina was a long process of historical struggles that converged in a massive occupation of public space during the year 2018. In this essay, I propose to analyze what was the political impact of this protest as an emancipatory process in Argentine society from the category of public performance. To do so, I will analyze, based on the observation of the results of the collective action for the legalization and decriminalization of abortion in Córdoba (Argentina), the following effects: strategic, institutional and performative.

This paper aims to problematize how young women are represented in youth studies linked to work as well as the notions of work and gender used. It is argued that the categories of work equated to employment and gender understood as an attribute of people do not allow for an appropriate reading of the realities of young women who carry out unpaid work in the domestic and/or community space. Some theoretical discussions of the aspects of feminisms, of the feminist economy and of the field of study of young people are recovered to make visible the importance of these works, as fundamental ambits of the daily reproduction of existence and as producers and reproducers of subjectivities and youth experiences.

Reseña del libro: Trabajo Social y vulnerabilidad social: Estrategias institucionales y prácticas organizativas. Dir. Giraldez, Soraya /Aut. Cecilia Testa; Claudia Lugano; Claudio Ríos. - 1a ed . - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, 2020.