Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Osenda, Natacha Veronica
Author's Email Address	nosenda@vt.edu
URN	etd-05232003-102851
Title	Destabilizing Machismo: Masculine and Feminine Constructions in the Theater of Susana Torres Molina
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	Latin American Area Studies
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Bixler, Jacqueline E. Committee Chair Farquhar, Sue Committee Member Mollin, Marian B. Committee Member
Keywords	Feminine Writing State Terrorism in Argentina Susana Torres Molina Gender Sexual Differences Machismo
Date of Defense	2003-05-16
Availability	restricted
Abstract This thesis explores the construction of masculinity in Argentina, as represented in two plays by Susana Torres Molina, _...Y a otra cosa mariposa_ (1981) and _Una noche cualquiera_ (1999). In these two plays, the construction of sexual difference is portrayed as occurring within a masculine point of view, wherein it is explicit that men have the power to define, from a self-referential standpoint, their masculine identity, through contrast with a construction of the female. Rather than consider masculine and feminine as two parts of the same whole, gender, Torres Molina’s works represent machismo as a two-part system, with masculine and female as distinct wholes, fundamentally different. The self-referentiality of machismo rejects the participation of women, subordinating and reducing them to the level of the object of conversation, characterized by biological essentialisms, instead of a constructed, subjective identity.
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