A case of study of youth trajectories of women circus artists from the southern suburbs of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a generational and gender perspective

Abstract

The objective of this work is to carry out a comparative analysis of the trajectories of two different generations of female circus artists, mother and daughter, from the southern suburbs of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their embodied life stories will be used to understand what vital experiences were enabled and constrained in the different situations in which their youth lived as circus artists and mothers -in the context of the 90's marked by neoliberalism and in the effervescence of Ni One Less since 2015- and how gender and corporality are mutually constituted in feminized circus subjectivities in both epochal conditions and what subjective transformations emerged from the encounter of feminist activism and the circus. Finally, this article aims to contribute to the strengthening of the circus as a relevant art as well as to make visible the experiences of the artists from a feminist anthropology.