Judith Butler in Argentina. Reception and polemic around the theory of gender performativity

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In Spanish language, the ideas and concepts of Judith Butler have circulated for more than two decades. Its reception was not uniform since, in every Spanish-speaking country, it was conditioned by the interest and the resistance that her daring propositions produced on feminisms and Gender Studies, by the anachronisms of translation and by the dynamics of the academy and the publishing industry. In Argentina, the first translations of Butler´s texts began to be published and circulated in the nineties, in magazines that were neither fully devoted to theory or academic work, nor devoted to activism devoid of academic concepts and ways of thinking. This article explores the different forms of reception, reading and use of the concepts of gender performativity theory in Argentina, as well as the controversies that were generated around it focusing on the tensions and intersections between activism and academy. These fields can be thought of as spaces of disputes with much more fragile and porous boundaries than often assumed.

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Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Nayla Luz Vacarezza

Licenciada y Profesora en Sociología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), donde también obtuvo el título de Doctora en Ciencias Sociales. Se desempeña como auxiliar docente en la Carrera de Sociología (Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UBA). Fue becaria doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (2009-2013) y actualmente es becaria postdoctoral de la misma institución. Es investigadora del proyecto UBACyT “La experiencia social de los límites. Cuerpos, hablas, poderes” (Dir. July Chaneton, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, UBA) y forma parte del Grupo de Trabajo “Micropolíticas visuales de los afectos” (Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Nacional de La Plata). Es coautora, junto con July Chaneton, del libro La intemperie y lo intempestivo. Experiencias del aborto voluntario en el relato de mujeres y varones (2011).

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2017-10-23

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Vacarezza, N. L. (2017). Judith Butler in Argentina. Reception and polemic around the theory of gender performativity. Revista Estudos Feministas, 25(3), 1257–1276. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

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Vol. 25 No. 3 (2017)

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