Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

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Acknowledgments Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures 1 Introduction: Feeling Our Way Through Latin America Politics and Emotions in Latin America Latin America and the Affective Turn Notes on Terminology The Politics, Culture, and History of Genders and Sexualities: An Affect Perspective References Part I The Public Mobilization of Affect: Politics and Activism 2 Depicting “Gender Ideology” as Affective and Arbitrary: Organized Actions Against Sexual and Gender Rights in Latin America Today Introduction Gender Ideology: History and Actors Strategic Secularism: Philosophy, Science, and the Law Versus Gender Ideology The Law: Universal-Rational Versus Particular-Sentimental Science and Medicine: Biological Objectivity Versus Cultural Subjectivity Philosophical Consideration: Reality Versus Ideology Conclusions References 3 White Scarves and Green Scarves. The Affective Temporality of #QueSeaLey [#MakeItLaw] as Fourth-Wave Feminism #QueSeaLey and the Lived Past Recent History and Pro-Legalization Activism Latin America and Fourth-Wave Feminism References 4 The Green Scarf for Abortion Rights: Affective Contagion and Artistic Reinventions of Movement Symbols The Triangular Green Scarf in Argentina We Propose. Green Scarves and Braids The Triangular Green Scarf in Chile Women Artist and Culture Workers of Chile. the Participatory Scarf Conclusion References 5 Affective Atmospheres and the Construction of Senses and Practices of Citizenship in Ecuador Introduction Affects and Reason in the Leadership Style of the Citizen Revolution Theoretical and Analytical Frameworks Affective Atmospheres and Citizenships in the Enlaces Ciudadanos Affective Atmospheres and Citizenships in Technocratic Spaces Conclusion References 6 The Politics of Sensibility and the Colonization of Gender. (a.k.a. Men Hate Women) Colonization and Gender Colonization and Affect Two Final Comments References Part II Affective Criticism: Visual Culture, Arts, and Literature 7 Beyond the Human: Maternity, Affect, and Monstrous Lives in the Narrative of Argentine Writer Samanta Schweblin Pregnancy, Maternal Care, and Nutrition: Motherhood in Pause The Metabolic Resonances of Care: Ingestion, Digestion, and the Non-human References 8 Spiritism as Artistic, Affective, and Feminist Agency: The Case of the Morla Sisters in Chile Writing and Speaking of Spirits Context and History of Spiritism On Women’s Friendship as Affect: The House of the Spirits References 9 Queer Temporalities, Fluid Encounters: Feeling Utopia in Marcelo Caetano’s Body Electric Feeling Utopia in Body Electric Race and Utopia References 10 Mapping the Failure: A Dissident Narrative of Homoerotic Affections in Carlos Correas Introduction: Mapping the Affects Carlos Correas: A Map of Failure The Narrative of Homosexual Failure The Failure of Married Life Conclusion References 11 Back to the Party: Affects, Relationships, and Encounters References Part III Emotions in Time: History, Memory, and Temporality 12 Popular Songs of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo: Emotionology of Love in Mexico 1880–1911 Introduction The Penny Press and Its Intertextual Assemblage: The Emotional Styles of Popular Culture Approaches to Love and Sex in the Vanegas Arroyo Songbooks “When Love Dies:” Styles of the Romantic Breakup Final Thoughts References 13 Emotional Education: Creating a Modern Child–Adult Relationship in Colombia The Modern Guise of Emotional Education Emotional Education at School Emotional Education at Home Conclusion References 14 Nostalgia as Historical Critique: Time and Desire in Alejandro Modarelli’s Rosa Prepucio Introduction The Decline of Locas The Queens of the Sunset Nostalgia as Historical Critique Killing Historical Joy References 15 Intoxicated Stories and Stained Bodies: Muddy Methodologies in the Oral History of Queer Politics of the Global South Everyone Was There, but No One Remembers An Irresponsible Demand: We Want to Fuck! Muddy Methodologies/Moody History References Index