’Yo no soy ésa’: representación y desidentificación en el testimonio de una prostituta (Santiago de Chile, 1908)

Vera, Antonieta; Sáez, Chiara

Abstract

From the feminist political theory, the present work develops an analysis around the struggle of a popular feminine subject for the power of (self)representation at the beginning of the 20th century. In particular, from the complaint —kept in the National Historical Archive of Chile— of María Espinoza against her ex-pimp, we identify and analyze the ploy and the disidentification as “outcast strategies” (Varikas, 2007). Focusing on the hermeneutic potential of these paradoxical political strategies, we develop a reading in contravention of this prostitute’s testimony in order to analyze certain marks of the gender historicity that contribute to construct critical genealogies of the legitimate femininity.

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Título de la Revista: ARENAL-REVISTA DE HISTORIA DE LAS MUJERES
Volumen: 28
Editorial: UNIV GRANADA, EDITORIAL
Fecha de publicación: 2021
Página de inicio: 203
Página final: 229
URL: https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/arenal/article/view/7891
DOI:

10.30827/arenal.v28i1.7891