Artículo
Image politics and disturbing temporalities: on "sex change" operations in the early chilean dictatorship
Fecha de publicación:
11/2018
Editorial:
Duke University Press
Revista:
Transgender Studies Quarterly
ISSN:
2328-9252
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
This article analyzes the use of images in the press coverage on the first trans woman in Chile who managed to successfully change her legal gender in 1974, under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and who identified herself with the name of Marcia Alejandra. First, the author explains how sex change worked as a device in Chile during that period. Then, the author discusses a leaflet with photographs of Marcia Alejandra, configured according to the rhetoric of “before” and “after” her gender reassignment surgery, in order to analyze how these images published in the press disrupt our understanding of the political and medical narratives on the body that encode trans historicities, and even of a progressive temporality itself.
Palabras clave:
SEX CHANGE
,
IMAGE POLITICS
,
CHILEAN DICTATORSHIP
,
DISTURBED TEMPORALITIES
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Articulos(SEDE CENTRAL)
Articulos de SEDE CENTRAL
Articulos de SEDE CENTRAL
Citación
Carvajal, Fernanda; Image politics and disturbing temporalities: on "sex change" operations in the early chilean dictatorship; Duke University Press; Transgender Studies Quarterly; 5; 4; 11-2018; 621-637
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