In a climate marked by the questioning of gender policies and rhetorical attacks against minorities driven by the government of Javier Milei, certain books regain unexpected relevance. Essays and narratives written at different moments in Argentine feminism today function as tools to understand how power, symbolic violence, and cultural mandates operate in the lives of women and dissident identities. Texts such as 'La guerra contra las mujeres' by Rita Segato, 'Putita golosa' by Luciana Peker, and 'The affair Skeffington' by María Moreno offer different perspectives—from political essay to chronicle and literary experimentation—but share a common goal: to critically think about patriarchy, desire, and power relations. The book has been considered a key piece for thinking about the lesbian and feminist literary tradition in Argentina. Its greatest merit may be to combine cultural research with a provocative, ironic, and free prose capable of questioning both official historical narratives and literary conventions. In times of polarized public debate, these readings allow us to recover conceptual and cultural tools to interpret the present. 1. 'La guerra contra las mujeres' by Rita Segato This essay by the Argentine anthropologist became a central reference in Latin American feminist thought. The author proposes a 'feminism of enjoyment,' an idea that vindicates the right of women to experience sexuality and desire without guilt or violence. The text is based on a simple but political premise: intimacy is also a territory of dispute. Rather than a traditional academic treatise, the book presents itself as a political and conceptual intervention that discusses how these violences are named and understood. With a clear but dense-in-ideas style, Segato shifts the debate from the legal or police sphere to a cultural and political reading of patriarchy. In the book, Segato proposes to read violence against women not as an isolated fact or a sexual overflow, but as a mechanism of power within hierarchical social structures. Her thesis is provocative: sexual crimes function as a public demonstration of male domination and as a way to reaffirm belonging within patriarchal communities. The result is a text that has circulated widely in universities, social movements, and public debates. 2. 'Putita golosa' by Luciana Peker A journalist specializing in gender, Peker proposes a very different register in this book: she mixes chronicle, essay, and autobiography to speak about desire, pleasure, and female autonomy. The plot recovers the artistic and lesbian atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, where writers, artists, and feminist activists coexisted. 3. 'The affair Skeffington' by María Moreno Originally published in 1992, this book by journalist and writer María Moreno is a hybrid work: a novel, poetry, and cultural essay at the same time. Far from an academic tone, Moreno bets on an experimental prose that reconstructs female and dissident genealogies within cultural history.
