Open-access Simulation as Affective Performance in the Origins of Feminism

This article scrutinizes the mocking elections conducted by suffragists in terms of affective performances. Through the analysis of the simulations carried out in Argentina in March and November 1920, I claim that the demolition of the patriarchal structure of feelings executed by feminism altered the understanding of reality through gestures typical of the artistic avant-gardes such as these acts of pre-enactment. Indeed, this article argues that such performances incarnated both a shift in the emancipatory language as linked to affect and -most importantly -, due to the performative order of such affect, an alteration of the understanding of reality.

Keywords:
Suffragism; Affect; Performance; Simulacrum

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