Abstract

MIRANDA, Marisa. Heteronormativity and Dissidences: Argentina Facing Syphilis and AIDS (1930-1990). Hist. Soc. [online]. 2021, n.41, pp.45-68.  Epub July 27, 2021. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n41.86238.

The goal of this article is to deconstruct some heteronormative imperatives which were consolidated in Argentina during the 20th century. The fundamental methodological strategy used focuses on discursive and contextual analysis of the legislative mechanisms established in this country to deal with two sexually transmitted diseases that, although they shared the century, had an emergence and purulence which were distant in time: syphilis and AIDS. In this regard, the text focuses on the legal-political discursivities organized around them to shed light on the functionality of the health regulations of both to the dominant sexuality mandates. And, in the same way, exhumes the role attributed to dissent reinforcing -according to orthodoxy- the sexual normality/abnormality scheme. In short, from a perspective that involves much of the twentieth century, this article explores the biopolitical approach on which the regulation was sustained, by the 1930s, of venereal diseases -then an emblem of heterosexuality- with syphilis in a leading position; and, in the 90s of AIDS, initially associated with homosexuality.

Keywords : heteronormativity; venereal diseases; AIDS; sexual behaviour; homosexuality; prostitution; sexual legislation; sexual stereotype; Argentina; twentieth century.

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