Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining kinship otherwise.Winner of the 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth Century Award presented by the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association As Argentina rose to political and economic prominence at the turn of the twentieth century debates about the family as an ideological structure and set of lived relationships took center stage in efforts to shape the modern nation. In Argentine Intimacies Joseph M. Pierce draws on queer studies Latin American studies and literary and cultural studies to consider the significance of one family in particular during this period of intense social change Carlos Julia Delfina and Alejandro Bunge.