Violated Women, Reason, andLo Políticoin the Imaginary of the Guatemalan Nation

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ID3817707
AuthorsM Gabriela Torres (0000-0003-0750-946X, Wheaton College MA USA, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume37
Issue3
Pages261-274
Publication date2018-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/blar.12777
OpenAlexW2794518446
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

Guatemalan newspapers are dappled with the spectre of women's violence and the bodily evidence of the military response that is typical for a woman's transgression of gender roles. Gendered representations of violence - so often repeated in the media - engender particular forms of political agency. This article explores how political violence is imagined with women's bodies and suggests that such violence is always built on pre-existing cultural practices. It argues that gender categorization is paramount to constructing a modern Guatemalan nation that all too often works to exclude women as knowing participants in Lo Político

Agency (philosophy · Categorization · Criminology · Epistemology · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology

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