Abstract

ZAMBRINI, Laura. Gender as Metaphor: Narratives about Transvestites in Argentina Digital Press (2004-2009). Soc. Econ. [online]. 2013, n.24, pp.143-158. ISSN 1657-6357.

The main objective of this article is to analyze the narratives of transvestites in Argentina Digital Press (2004-2009). The methodology which will be carried out is qualitative and it includes some aspects of narrative analysis. The theoretical framework is founded on post-structuralism and on the perspective of gender intersectionality. We found that the media recreated several antagonisms: red zones/green areas; transvestites/neighbours. People living in those areas feel threatened by transvestites, who turn those spaces into Red Zones. The green space defense functions as a discursive argument seemingly neutral and objective, but which tacitly suggests ways displacement and discrimination in the urban space. We concluded that body features and social marginality operate as moral attributes that made possible to project images of decadence in opposition to idealized images of body and genre. This binary moral system hides gender and social class conflicts

Keywords : Narrative; Body; Gender; Subject; Identity.

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