“Men-women”, “women-men”, women who “look like men” or men who “look like women”, “neutrals”: these are the lexical constructions to which the Spanish press resorted between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, along the lines of scientific discourse, to make non-binary identities recognisable/readable, always perceived and/or presented as “pathological”. In this study, the focus is exclusively on those subjects who, by consciously violating the dress code in force at the time, created a “dangerous” identity short-circuit (the best known case is that of María Salomé/Agustín Reverte) and precisely for this reason were the object of domestication and of disciplinary erasure of their otherness/indocility.
Sotto mentite spoglie (o forse no)
anita fabiani
2022-01-01
Abstract
“Men-women”, “women-men”, women who “look like men” or men who “look like women”, “neutrals”: these are the lexical constructions to which the Spanish press resorted between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, along the lines of scientific discourse, to make non-binary identities recognisable/readable, always perceived and/or presented as “pathological”. In this study, the focus is exclusively on those subjects who, by consciously violating the dress code in force at the time, created a “dangerous” identity short-circuit (the best known case is that of María Salomé/Agustín Reverte) and precisely for this reason were the object of domestication and of disciplinary erasure of their otherness/indocility.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
