Feminist readings and women writers of the 70s. A approach to “La mujer” (Sur, 1971), Somos (1973-6) and Persona (1974-5)

Abstract

Somos and Persona are fundamental to understand the gay and feminist activism of the 70s, Argentine. Two journals are crossed by the feminist theory of the USA and of the Argentine political crisis. So, a first objective is to reconstruct the ideals of both magazines, their protagonists, aesthetics and facts that were central. A few years before these, Victoria Ocampo creates a special volume dedicated to women. So, I wonder what are the facts and ideas that circulate in the three journals. What are the dialogues, tensions and disagreements that are woven from them both in relation to feminism and the cultural field, more specifically, literary? The proposal is to review this journals, with the idea that the three formed a place of reception and appropriation of the feminist theory that took place in the central countries and introduced the debate about the sexual difference in the literary environment.