Abstract

MANZANO, Valeria. "Contra toda forma de opresión": Sexo, política y clases medias juveniles en las revistas de humor de los primeros ´70. Sociohistórica [online]. 2012, n.29, pp.09-34. ISSN 1852-1606.

This article explores how the magazines devoted to political and cultural humor in the early 1970s became a source of self-reflection for a readership, or "social space," that emerged around them. Through the analysis of the most important of these magazines, Satiricón, it is possible to show that in socio-demographic terms that social space was made of youth, middle-class, and intellectualized groups, who could at the same time laugh and make laugh-chiefly when the magazines highlighted the inconsistencies in their sexual and political experiences. The magazines elaborated on many inconsistencies: the calls to sex education interwoven with persisting old sexual beliefs; the "psi" language domesticating, instead of helping liberate, sexual repressions; men fearing the end of their privileges in the context of women’s sexual assertiveness; and, more broadly, political militancy as a way of oppression. These inconsistencies were the basis for the laughable, focused on middle-class youth who was called to a kind of reflection that, in that political context, perhaps was only viable through exaggeration, and humor.

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