Reflecting on Argentine Intimacies, or Why I Love-Hate the Family

[...]one of my first memories of graduate school is attending a protest of the Texas marriage amendment with a group of new friends, students, and faculty. A friend was beaten outside a gay bar. Bunge was a purportedly closeted homosexual active at the turn of the century, who in addition to mundane but occasionally intense fiction, wrote (and was well known for) sociological and psychosociological studies of Argentine society. "7 The norm is not a prescriptive identity category, but, as I argue, "one that accrues value and meaning through its negotiation with sexual, gender, and erotic differences. [...]while I think I have managed to do so in the book, I also think that doing so required a dense reading of multiple forms of cultural production.