EMOTION, MOVEMENT, TRANSFORMATION: RESISTANCE TO DICTATORSHIPS IN THE SOUTHERN CONE

Abstract

“Politics of emotion and gender in the Southern Cone” tells stories of women who fought against dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, between the 1960s and 1980s, based on the fruitful encounter of the fields of the history of emotions and feminist and gender studies. Contesting the boundaries between reason and emotion, the articles in the collection seek to highlight affections as one of the central elements for the formation of the various social movements in which the militants were engaged, as well as the importance of emotions for maintaining the organized struggle against the dictatorship. Each of the chapters analyze the theme through a different emotion, such as friendship, love, willingness, courage, fear, laughter, mourning, solidarity, motherhood and guilt, anger and hate, and, finally, hope.