A question of gender: Depictions of women during the Malvinas War in educational materials

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  • Florencia Bottazzi Universidad Nacional de La Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v12i25.1005

Keywords:

Malvinas war, collective memory, education materials, enunciative polyphony, social discourse analysis

Abstract

For an extended period, the memories of Argentine women involved in the Malvinas War did not share the same public space as those of male war veterans. In recent years, however, these narratives have gained ground in the public sphere. Forty-one years after the conflict with the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic, the memories of Malvinas women have officially entered the public domain. This is particularly noticeable in schools, specifically in textbooks and school memory days. The latter are considered educational materials produced by the Argentine Ministry of Education and other provincial ministries on the occasion of the Malvinas Veterans and Fallen Day, a crucial discursive genre for the construction of Argentine national identity although not yet explored in detail.

Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis, these materials will be approached as discursive manifestations of memory from a social discursive perspective. The conclusions will reveal the lack of uniformity in the treatment of discursive memories in both materials: while textbooks omit Malvinas women, school memory day materials include them. As for their protagonists, they are depicted predominantly in accordance with stereotypical representations of gender, with women often associated to peace and care work in spite of their specific training. However, representations also emerge that praise and, to a lesser extent, condemn rebelliousness. Ultimately, these memories are embedded in broader historical narratives that reinforce dichotomous representations of peace vs. rebellion, placing Malvinas women in a tradition of struggle for sovereignty and as fighters themselves.

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Florencia Bottazzi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Florencia Bottazzi es Profesora en Letras por la UNLP. Se desempeña como ayudante diplomada en Introducción a los Estudios del Lenguaje y la Comunicación para las carreras de Lenguas Modernas de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de dicha universidad. Actualmente se encuentra realizando el Doctorado en Letras en la UNLP en el marco de una beca doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) y participa en proyectos de investigación de la UNLP y UBA vinculados a la lingüística y el análisis del discurso.

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2024-01-24

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Bottazzi, F. (2024). A question of gender: Depictions of women during the Malvinas War in educational materials. Revista Universitaria De Historia Militar, 12(25), 57–88. https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v12i25.1005

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Vol. 12 No. 25 (2023): Mujeres en guerras, perspectivas discursivas

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