{"product_id":"a-body-of-ones-own-a-trans-history-of-argentina-hardback-9781477328606","title":"A Body of One's Own; A Trans History of Argentina (Hardback) 9781477328606","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Body of One's Own\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Trans History of Argentina\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricio Simonetto (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477328606, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 32 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Simonetto's] archival trawling across the decades is encyclopaedic, and this work will doubtless be a touchstone for scholars in multiple fields, laying a solid foundation for the developing subfield of Trans Latin American History. Future scholars of the history of gender and sexuality in Argentina will have to reckon with this work, and will be better for it . . . [\u003ci\u003eA Body of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e] joins other recent US and international monographs in shaping a conversation about past lives and discourses ‘before trans’, which are both archivally grounded and theoretically innovative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Gender \u0026amp; History) \u003cdiv\u003eThis is a book that deftly engages trans and travesti histories as central to Argentine statecraft and nation-building. Simonetto treats both his archival materials and his interlocutors with depth and care. He draws enthusiastically from a multitude of thinkers, including those working both inside and outside the space of the academy.\u003c\/div\u003e (ReVista) \u003cdiv\u003ePatricio Simonetto reveals a hidden world...that is too often overlooked and misunderstood.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Latin American Geography) \u003cdiv\u003ePatricio Simonetto examines the history of transgender and gender-diverse people as Argentina underwent multiple strands of nation-building and rebuilding. The result is an impressive, thoughtful, deeply compassionate work that offers much not simply to scholars of transgender or queer history, but indeed to those rethinking the very concepts of categorisation, discursive boundaries and what it is to be...[this is] a lucid, vibrant and above all empathetic book. Simonetto's focus on the lives and livelihoods of his subjects is admirable, welcome and has urgent relevance in a world where reaction seems to be declaring war on hard-won LGBTQIA+ rights. Rather than romanticising the past, however, Simonetto’s book is a salutary reminder that what we euphemistically call ‘progress’ is often complex, multifaceted and in no way linear. As all good histories should, this outstanding contribution to the literature fascinates and delights, but also serves as a vital warning in troubled – and troubling – times.\u003c\/div\u003e (Gender \u0026amp; History) \u003cdiv\u003eThe book shifts the focus away from an examination of gay and lesbian activism to document how trans people constructed their own unique personas, found ways to transform their bodies in alignment with their gender identities, built support networks, and mobilized to demand basic civil and democratic rights. Since in-depth studies of trans people in Latin America, as well as social histories of lesbians, lag far behind academic production about gay men, Simonetto’s pioneering work on the topic will immediately become a reference point for scholars who wish to carry out similar studies in other countries of the region or beyond.\u003c\/div\u003e (The Americas) \u003cdiv\u003eSimonetto has accomplished something amazing with this book. He has managed to focus Argentinian national history on a struggle that is usually kept to the margins of the historical record, that of the body. As such he advances a new field of research that considers not just trans experiences but also cis ones, as the body is a political battlefield for us all....An instant classic.\u003c\/div\u003e (NACLA Report on the Humanities)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies, The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e As a trans history of Argentina, a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives, \u003ci\u003eA Body of One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eA Body of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e explores how trans activists' challenges to the exclusionary effects of Argentina’s legal, cultural, social, and political cisgender order led to the passage of the Gender Identity Law in 2012. Analyzing the decisive yet overlooked impact of gender transformation in the formation of the nation-state, gender-belonging, and citizenship, this book ultimately shows that supposedly abstract struggles to define the shifting notions of \"sex,\" citizenship, and nationhood are embodied material experiences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Note to the Reader \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. In the Flesh of (National) History \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Cut from a Different Cloth: Gender Transgressions in the Early Twentieth Century \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. The Body I Was Born In: Governing Sex and Embodiment Repertoires during the Era of the Biomedical Transition \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Queens in the Theaters and the Streets: The Global Making of Travestis’\u003cbr\u003e Popular Culture and Everyday Technologies \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Living Laboratories: Travesti\/Trans Knowledge and Homemade Technologies \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. The Carnal Revolution: Trans Citizenship and the Limits of Democratic Transition \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681263087896,"sku":"9781477328606","price":34.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-body-of-ones-own-a-trans-history-of-argentina-hardback-9781477328606","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}