- Convenors:
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María Soledad Cutuli
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Ruby Mascarenhas Neto (Freie Universität Berlin)
Livia Motterle (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
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Short Abstract
This panel explores how labor, politics, and moralities intersect in feminist and queer ethnographies, examining inequalities, resistances, and the institutional production of gendered and sexualized work.
Long Abstract
This panel, organized by the Gender and Sexualities Anthropology Network, addresses the intersections between work, politics, and moralities from feminist and queer anthropological perspectives. Across diverse contexts marked by neoliberal reforms and conservative backlashes, questions of labor and value—productive, reproductive, and sexual—have become key arenas for both institutional regulation and collective resistance.
We invite contributions that analyze how gendered and sexualized forms of labor are recognized, stigmatized, or contested in relation to broader political and moral orders. This includes research on reproductive and care work, sex work, and feminized or informal economies, as well as the struggles of unions, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, and state agencies to redefine what counts as legitimate work and who counts as a legitimate worker.
At the same time, the panel foregrounds how institutional practices in areas such as labor regulation, welfare, health, and education produce moral distinctions—between decency and deviance, legitimacy and exclusion—that shape everyday experiences and hierarchies. These processes are not merely oppressive but also generate spaces of negotiation and resistance, where subjects re-signify norms and challenge moral and political boundaries.
By combining ethnographic, comparative, and collaborative approaches, this panel aims to rethink how feminist anthropology can account for the entanglements of work, sexuality, and moral order. We welcome papers that engage with contemporary debates on trans and feminist labor rights, institutional stigma, and the moral economies of care, desire, and survival. In doing so, the panel seeks to open a critical dialogue on how power, inequality, and affect are embodied, resisted, and reimagined in everyday practices of work and life.