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CALL FOR PAPERS NOMADIAS MAGAZINE No. 33 2024.

Special issue sex/dissident: 25 years since the decriminalization of sodomy in Chile, and 51 years since the first homosexual protest.

NOMADÍAS CUIR/QUEER/KUIR. A political/sexual dissident speech to think about the south-south.

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Sexuality, production and work in hygienist and eugenics discourse in Chile and Argentina, 1860-1930

Authors

  • Manuel Durán Facultad de Filosofía Y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The positivist medical discourse considereds sexuality as an “energy” to be channeled productively. To prevent disease pathological and moral overflow, it established a “sexual science” in the areas of labor and education production. The medical of the passions was used as device of order, in categories of kind and class. The article discusses the models of gender imposed from the scientific and th liberal discourse, one as part of the processes of medical and “issues question” in Chile and Argentina (1860-1930). Analyzing the sexual, labor and educational models in the hygienists and eugenic discourse, as part of the debate concerning the construction of the “national-state” and the modernity.