Civilized doctors and perverse sexualities: A medical point of view of non conventional gender identities during the first peronism [1946-1955]

Abstract

This paper analyzes the medical conception of those transgressive identities of the socially gendered assigned roles and didn't adapt to a heteronormative and dualistic model during the first two peronist government. We analyzed the articles from magazine La Semana Médica. This source has allowed us to observe how the medicine, constituted as a power and knowledge field reinforced the familiarist discourse spread and diffused by the state. However, the medical power was constantly questioned; by other disciplines and by the people that were object of medical inspection