Department of History University of Arizona
Deadline: 20.03.2009
We are inviting paper proposals for a panel that seeks to contribute to a gendered perspective of the history of Latin American exile, preferably with a focus on the twentieth century. Papers should add new complexity to the understanding of exile, which scholars have often gendered as particularly male. Few studies have addressed the (re-)construction of male and female identities as they were (re-)shaped in the course of exile. We do not know enough about the gendered social and cultural characteristics of the community life Latin American exiles established in different parts of the world, or about the (re-)production of gender relations when men and women exiles negotiated political and social spaces/identities in receiving societies and (re-)shaped ties to their home countries.
Papers could address, but are not limited to, the following questions: To what extent have the journeys refugees took to new cultural and political environments also represented journeys to new gendered identities? Were men and women in exile addressed differently by Continue reading