Cuerpos y subjetividades en disputa: Experiencias femeninas en los centros clandestinos de detención en Argentina (1976-1983)
In this present work, we will analyze the experience lived by militant women in the clandestine confinement centres during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). From a gender perspective, we will investigate the characteristics of female subjectivity forged in confinement places....
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| Language: | English |
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Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine
2017-07-01
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| Series: | L'Ordinaire des Amériques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/orda/3491 |
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| Summary: | In this present work, we will analyze the experience lived by militant women in the clandestine confinement centres during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). From a gender perspective, we will investigate the characteristics of female subjectivity forged in confinement places. These women suffered, besides torture, sexual violence. This violence has had the purpose of disciplining, feminizing and setting the militants, again, in the role of gender from which they had moved away to have access to other experiences such as the militancy of the seventies. With the reinforcement of the dictatorship with a patriarchal mandate, we consider that masculinity and femininity were redefined in those confined places. Masculinity was represented by the absolute power of tortures over the bodies of passive victims. Femininity was associated with passivity: bodies (both women and men) subjugated to impotent, humiliating and dependent attitudes. The stories about crimes against integrity reported during the trials begin to be enabled today, due to in the decade of the eighties the violations were not visible in the judgments. They are the stories that make the public memory of the recent past and whose visualizations contribute to enrich it. |
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| ISSN: | 2273-0095 |