Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars

by Viviana Beatriz MacManus

Book Overview

The histories of the Dirty Wars in Mexico and Argentina (1960s-1980s) have largely erased how women experienced and remember the gendered violence during this traumatic time. Viviana Beatriz MacManus restores women to the revolutionary struggle at the heart of the era by rejecting both state projects and the leftist accounts focused on men. Using a compelling archival blend of oral histories, interviews, human rights reports, literature, and film,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085434
• ISBN13: 9780252085437
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"