Postgraduate Studies

Hi everyone!

In this blog I would like to talk about my graduate studies.

Since I started studying Sociology, I immediately became interested in the area of gender, that is, Sociology of Gender. That's why I started researching about gender theory, allowing me to know and understand many things. I found great authors who explain how gender opens the space for us to look beyond a biological differentiation between men and women. This concept is defined as a sociocultural construction that is not related to or dependent on sex. Most research focuses on gender relations between men and women and the oppression of women. However, studies on gender-neutral or non-binary gender are very scarce.

Therefore, within the area of gender I would like to specialize in gender-neutral or non-binary gender and also in queer theory. To be able to contribute in the future with studies and research on these topics and to be able to make visible those people of non-binary gender. Especially in Chile, there is very little awareness at the societal level. In fact, although the gender identity law enacted in 2018 was an advance, it only considers those people who transition from one gender to another within a binary range (female / male) and those who identify with a gender outside that range are not recognized at the state or institutional level.

In Chile this subject is not much addressed academically, so I would have to study it abroad and one of the countries where there is much awareness of queer theory both socially and academically is in the United States. If the pandemic did not exist I would like to go to seminars in the United States, especially those led by Judith Butler, one of the pioneers of queer theory. But since we are living in a pandemic context I can only do online courses on queer theory.