Power and Peripheral Sexuality: A Socio-semiotic Analysis on the Discursive Configuration of Sexual Practices and Hegemonic Networks in Salta (1959)

In this article we present part of a research carried out on the representational archaeology of María Grynsztein de Espeche, known as La Rusa María, who was a famous brothel keeper in the Red Zone of the province of Salta between the 1930s and 1960s. Through a socio-semiotic analysis we investigate...

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Autor principal: Guzmán González, Diana
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humanidades 2025
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Sumario:In this article we present part of a research carried out on the representational archaeology of María Grynsztein de Espeche, known as La Rusa María, who was a famous brothel keeper in the Red Zone of the province of Salta between the 1930s and 1960s. Through a socio-semiotic analysis we investigate the power of her infamous image to stress the hegemonic pressures existing in a hygienist society sustained by the negotiations of the cooperative triad formed by the political, judicial-policial, and religious power. We reviewed judicial files, archbishops’ archives and official correspondence that allowed us to identify the discursive strategies used from a subordinate position that managed to reverse the dominant logics and install until today a mythical figure from her categorization as an infamous woman.