Gendering Antifascism
Women's Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918-1947
Sandra McGee Deutsch
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Description
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Publish Date | September 05, 2023 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780822947813 |
| Dimensions | 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.4 inches | 1.8 pounds |
About the Author
Sandra McGee Deutsch is professor emerita of history at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of Counterrevolution in Argentina, 1900-1932: The Argentine Patriotic League; Las derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939; and Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955, which won a Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Award. She is also coeditor of Women of the Right: Comparisons and Interplay across Borders and The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins, 1910 to the Present.
Reviews
An essential contribution to know the history of women's organizations, the origin of feminism and its relationship with the development of workers' struggles at national and international level and the formation of spaces of politicization for women from different social backgrounds.-- "American Communist History"
Deutsch brings an impressive array of different sources to provide a detailed and absorbing history of this association in which almost no aspect is left untouched. the author provides a model for future researchers on how to knit the local, the national, and the transnational in the study of this phenomenon.-- "The Americas"
Deutsch offers a major revisionist work on World War II that relies on extensive interviews with immigrants, elites, feminists, maternalists, communists, Catholics, Jews, and atheists. What a story it tells!-- "Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina"
Superbly researched and elegantly written, McGee Deutsch's book is a remarkable contribution to the scholarship of women's activism and organizing in Latin America. It is also a timely invitation to reconsider the deeply gendered meanings of anti-fascism and democracy--a topic that is even more fitting in the current context of rising totalitarian ideas in the region and the world.-- "Hispanic American Historical Review"
A superb book on the only major Argentine antifascist association composed entirely of women. Attracting disenfranchised women, the Junta de la Victoria fostered a democratic alternative to fascism and politicized women in the Southern Cone. The contemporary resurgence of right-wing populist and neofascist groups in the Americas makes this meticulously researched study, of a relatively unknown organization of the 1940s, of particular relevance. Highly recommended.--Raanan Rein, author of Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina
In this deeply researched book, Sandra McGee Deutsch provides a compelling narrative of the struggles of Argentine women, often operating in an extremely hostile environment, to combat the rise of fascism at home and abroad. It is a major contribution to our understanding of Argentine history and has significant implications for the present day.--Richard J. Walter, Washington University in St. Louis
Deutsch brings an impressive array of different sources to provide a detailed and absorbing history of this association in which almost no aspect is left untouched. the author provides a model for future researchers on how to knit the local, the national, and the transnational in the study of this phenomenon.-- "The Americas"
Deutsch offers a major revisionist work on World War II that relies on extensive interviews with immigrants, elites, feminists, maternalists, communists, Catholics, Jews, and atheists. What a story it tells!-- "Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina"
Superbly researched and elegantly written, McGee Deutsch's book is a remarkable contribution to the scholarship of women's activism and organizing in Latin America. It is also a timely invitation to reconsider the deeply gendered meanings of anti-fascism and democracy--a topic that is even more fitting in the current context of rising totalitarian ideas in the region and the world.-- "Hispanic American Historical Review"
A superb book on the only major Argentine antifascist association composed entirely of women. Attracting disenfranchised women, the Junta de la Victoria fostered a democratic alternative to fascism and politicized women in the Southern Cone. The contemporary resurgence of right-wing populist and neofascist groups in the Americas makes this meticulously researched study, of a relatively unknown organization of the 1940s, of particular relevance. Highly recommended.--Raanan Rein, author of Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina
In this deeply researched book, Sandra McGee Deutsch provides a compelling narrative of the struggles of Argentine women, often operating in an extremely hostile environment, to combat the rise of fascism at home and abroad. It is a major contribution to our understanding of Argentine history and has significant implications for the present day.--Richard J. Walter, Washington University in St. Louis
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