The paper analyzes the Argentine National Law No. 26.782, which includes free surgery for breast reconstruction of women who underwent mastectomy after a diagnosis of breast cancer, implying coverage by the public health system. The Law, approved in pursuit of "recovering body harmony" or "restoring emotional well-being", calls for an analysis of the assumptions that justify and sustain its sanction. We pay particular attention to rethink the place of the body, from its active role in the surrounding social life, materialized in the case analyzed. We reflect in this field on the normative matrices for the production of gendered corporalities. We support in this direction, the paradoxical role of the State, which on the one hand guarantees rights in access to certain surgeries and simultaneously produces corporalities regulated in relation to certain hegemonic ideals of femininity, of the healthy and the pathological.
Keywords:
corporeality, breast cancer, legislation, mastectomy
Passerino, L. M. (2018). Gendered Corporalities. About the National Law No. 26.782 of free breast reconstruction in Argentina. Nomadías, (25), 69–89. Retrieved from https://revistaeggp.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/51506
