Crier la Libération en France (1944-1945)

Virgili, Fabrice

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“…Stripped of their femininity, the public humiliation of these women made the punishment so much worse and demonstrated the appropriation of their bodies by the victor, a violent and symbolic act of male domination, of the gender politics of war. 41 Thus, the direct violence enacted on the bodies of the working-class women of Oaxaca assumed great symbolic power: it weaponised their bodies into a public warning, a stark admonition as to what awaited women who might transgress their traditional roles, to the men who failed to protect them, and to the survival of the Liberal vision of the nation. If women were defeminised and desexualised, or publicly exhibited as prostitutes, they could no longer be mothers capable of reproducing the nation.…”

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The Weaponising of Women's Bodies in the Wars of Reform and French Intervention in Mexico, 1857–67

Chassen‐López¹

2022

Gender & History

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Acts of violence in war not only have individual effects on bodies, but they also have a social, collective impact on the social body. While recent works have recovered the participation of women in the War for Independence and the 1910 Revolution in Mexico, the role their bodies played in wartime has not been examined. Focusing on the decade of war between 1857 and 1867, which influenced the consolidation of national sovereignty and identity, this article explores how, while women's bodies can be targets themselves, they also can be transformed into weapons aimed at other targets. Consequently, their bodies were 'weaponised' and aimed at: women as individuals punished for transgressions, real or imagined, of traditional gender roles; at men, to damage or destroy their masculine honour, their failure to protect their women and the integrity of their families; and last, the survival of their vision of the nation (either Liberal or Conservative), or even the honour and survival of the nation itself in the case of a foreign intervention. However, which bodies were targeted, and how, depended on the intersection of gender, class, race, ethnicity, political identity and nationality.'Every experience of war is, above all, an experience of the body', contends Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau. 'In war, while bodies inflict violence, that violence is inflicted on bodies. This corporality of war has been merged so closely with the phenomenon of war that it is not easy to separate "the history of war" from an historical anthropology of the bodily experiences caused by war's activities'. Although his analysis focuses almost entirely on men's bodies (he dedicates less than two pages to women), Audoin-Rouzeau makes this fundamental connection that discussions of war must also be about bodies in war. While men and women are embodied differently in wartime, his argument pertains equally to women; and his (and other's) lack of attention to women's bodies makes it all the more urgent to address this failure. 1 Moreover, not only has the impact of war on their bodies been ignored but almost all women's roles in wartime, especially as agents, continue to be expunged from the historical record. If Cynthia Enloe lamented in 1987 that military history has been 'written as though women didn't exist', Karen Hagemann could still voice the same complaint in 2020, despite the advances in women's and gender history and the emergence of the 'new military history'. 2 Consequently, Joan Scott's queries still stand:Francie Chassen-López holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky (USA). She has published three single-author books, most recently, Mujer y poder en el siglo XIX: La vida extraordinaria de Juana Catarina Romero (Mexico: Penguin Random House/Taurus, 2020) and over fifty articles on Mexican history, especially on issues of gender.

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Section: Weaponising Lower-class Women: Lower Value Targets For Physi...mentioning

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The Weaponising of Women's Bodies in the Wars of Reform and French Intervention in Mexico, 1857–67

Chassen‐López¹

2022

Gender & History

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