Tag: Argentina

• Argentine Borderlands: Relationships Between Torturers and Desaparecidos Under the Military Junta 

  

  Under the brutal rule of the military junta in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, hundreds of secret torture camps were established to interrogate and imprison suspected agitators and ‘subversives’. Kat Jivkova examines the relationship between prisoners and guards in these camps and the intriguing ways in which the boundaries between the two groups oftentimes blurred.

  Retrospect Journal

  19/03/2023

  Academic

  Argentina, Argentine History, History, Twentieth Century

• Argentine Women and Mass Political Participation in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries

  

  Written by Hanna Derouin. Women’s increasing engagement in Argentine politics paradoxically emerged through traditional gender roles. From schooling to the figure of Eva Peron, Argentinian women used their positions as mothers and caregivers to establish themselves politically.

  Retrospect Journal

  21/03/2021

  Academic

  19th Century, 20th Century, Argentina, Feminism, Gender History, Latin American History, Political Movements, Women's History