Argentine fictions from the gender: a live life

Abstract

In Argentina, since 1983 languages have intermingled with the democratic return, lives and genders. In 1986, the first National Meeting of Women was held and in 2015, the «Ni Una Menos» movement. The last constitutional reform of 1994 includes shared patria potestad and quota law, which translates into the gradual conquest of civic equality. A year later, certain streams of novels cross these stories and modify the public imagination. A part of the sociability and production of these writers is through graphic journalism, teaching and the arts. In what ways do these narratives intervene in the debates and on the agenda? El affair Skeffington (María Moreno, 1992), Bajar es lo peor (Mariana Enríquez, 1995), Mudanzas (Hebe Uhart, 1995), El fin de la historia (Liliana Heker, 1996), ¿Vos me querés a mí? (Romina Paula, 2005), Me encantaría que gustes de mí (Dalia Rosetti, pseudonym for Fernanda Laguna, 2005) and El desperdicio (Matilde Sánchez, 2007). This article aims to analyze the ways in which these narratives reconfigure, from the middle of the nineties, the spaces of the State, the flows of work, money and recognition, and the politicization of life.