Nosotras también estuvimos (2021) and war masculinity blind spot

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https://doi.org/10.7203/diablotexto.11.24225

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Malvinas, women, female masculinity

Abstract

The Argentine documentary Nosotras también estuvimos, released on April 1, 2021 and directed by Federico Strifezzo, proposes a journey through the memory of three women who served as field nurses during the Malvinas War. The documentary bears witness to their experiences during the war when they professionally treated the wounded conscripts. The memory is drawn as a political exercise that culminates in a transgressive act: the nurses place a commemorative plaque in a monument to Malvinas veterans near where they worked as nurses, a monument in which they were not represented. In this work I propose a reading from masculinity studies to analyze the effect of this act that despite its transgressive burden ends up reaffirming a patriarchal gender organization.

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Paola Ehrmantraut, University of St. Thomas 

Directora del programa de Estudios de la Mujer, Género, y Sexualidad Profesora Asociada de Esoañol

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Published

2022-07-18

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Ehrmantraut, P. (2022). Nosotras también estuvimos (2021) and war masculinity blind spot. Diablotexto Digital, 11, 88–99. https://doi.org/10.7203/diablotexto.11.24225
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Vol. 11 (2022): Recent memories of a 40-year conflict: The latest cultural representations of the the Malvinas War

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