Gendering Anti-facism
Women Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918-1947
Sandra McGee Deutsch
- 368 pages
- English
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Gendering Anti-facism
Women Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918-1947
Sandra McGee Deutsch
About This Book
Winner of the 2024 Thomas McGann Award for Outstanding Monograph on Latin American HistoryA History of the Women's Antifascism Movement in Argentina that Contains Lessons for Opposing Fascism Today
Argentine women's long resistance to extreme rightists, tyranny, and militarism culminated in the Junta de la Victoria, or Victory Board, a group that organized in the aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in defiance of the neutralist and Axis-leaning government in Argentina. A sewing and knitting group that provided garments and supplies for the Allied armies in World War II, the Junta de la Victoria was a politically minded association that mobilized women in the fight against fascism. Without explicitly characterizing itself as feminist, the organization promoted women's political rights and visibility and attracted forty-five thousand members. The Junta ushered diverse constituencies of Argentine women into political involvement in an unprecedented experiment in pluralism, coalition-building, and political struggle. Sandra McGee Deutsch uses this internationally minded but local group to examine larger questions surrounding the global conflict between democracy and fascism.