In the context of the exhibition Will This Time Be Different from Martha Rosler, for which a free public reference library with feminist content was created, Lucía Dussaut will review how the literary proposals of some Latin American women writers dialogue with the critical and theoretical formulations regarding the question of "the feminine" and "the feminist" in their literature.
To speak of "feminine writing" is to highlight another omnipresent and unpronounceable syntagma, that of "masculine writing", whose efficacy resides in the mask it adopts, that of neutral writing. For this reason, women's writing has always remained on the margins of the canon, based on sexual and essentialist analogies. However, throughout the long twentieth century and in parallel to the numerous battles that feminism was able to wage, this marginal mode of existence took on different forms, despite the continuities that the mandate of exceptionality sought to ensure. Our objective is to analyze the counter-discourse that, since the second half of the twentieth century, begins to plot the writing of women in Latin America.
Lucía Dussaut has a degree in Arts and a doctorate in Gender Studies from the University of Buenos Aires. She is part of the chair of Latin American Narrative in the career of Writing Arts at the National University of the Arts (UNA). She is Academic Coordinator and Professor of the Master's Degree in Gender Studies and Policies at the Tres de Febrero National University and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies (IIEGE-UBA) and the Centre for Research on Gender Studies and Policies (CIEPOG-UNTREF).
