Mir Yarfitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 126464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mir Yarfitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mir |
| FAMILY NAME | Yarfitz |
| SIGNATURE | YARFITZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The other/Argentina: Jews, gender, and sexuality in the making of a modern nation
Queering Jewish Studies
This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach o…
La Bella Otero's Overdetermined Anality: Tales of Sexual Inversion in Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires
SeriousMaricasand Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921-1945
State, legal, and medical experts in early twentieth-century Argentina conflated what would today be distinguished as same-sex attraction and trans or nonbinary gender experience. An urban subculture of self-styled maricas was pathologized by criminologists and occasionally targeted by police. Scholarship on these subjects has often focused on medical and cultural representation, situating maricas in the genealogy of homosexuality. This article b…
Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina
Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was …
SeriousMaricasand Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921-1945
State, legal, and medical experts in early twentieth-century Argentina conflated what would today be distinguished as same-sex attraction and trans or nonbinary gender experience. An urban subculture of self-styled maricas was pathologized by criminologists and occasionally targeted by police. Scholarship on these subjects has often focused on medical and cultural representation, situating maricas in the genealogy of homosexuality. This article b…
La Bella Otero's Overdetermined Anality: Tales of Sexual Inversion in Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires
Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina
Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was …
SeriousMaricasand Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921-1945
State, legal, and medical experts in early twentieth-century Argentina conflated what would today be distinguished as same-sex attraction and trans or nonbinary gender experience. An urban subculture of self-styled maricas was pathologized by criminologists and occasionally targeted by police. Scholarship on these subjects has often focused on medical and cultural representation, situating maricas in the genealogy of homosexuality. This article b…
Queering Jewish Studies
This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach o…
La Bella Otero's Overdetermined Anality: Tales of Sexual Inversion in Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires
The other/Argentina: Jews, gender, and sexuality in the making of a modern nation
Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)