Before the consecration of "gender" in the university: Trajectories, generations and languages in tension during the expansion of a knowledge area

Abstract

The objective of this work is to identify languages, genealogies and profiles that shaped the gender and sexualities studies in Argentina before its current institutionalization. Methodologically, interviews, documents and secondary bibliography are used to reconstruct three key experiences in the development of this area in the field of the University of Buenos Aires during the 1990s: the Career in Women's Studies, the Institute of Gender Studies and the Queer Studies Area. The results highlight the idea of stressing the distinctions between the university and its outside, between academic and activist profiles, the critique of the processes of institutionalization and the search of horizontal logics of transmission, related to the education in the '60s and '70s, alternatives to those of university knowledge.