Autorentext

Lisa DiGiovanni is chair of the Department of Modern Languages, professor of Spanish, and interdisciplinary scholar of genocide studies at Keene State College.

Klappentext

Revealing how militarized masculinity inextricably intersects with political repression, this book examines the dictatorial regimes of Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet to offer arresting examples of the implications of these links.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Cristina Moreiras Menor

Introduction: Naming a Problem

1. Militarization, Myth, and Masculinity
2. Boot Camp Brutality: Making Militarized Masculinity
3. Perpetrator Memory and Masculinity: Breaking Ranks in Chile and Spain
4. Militarizing Children under Franco and Pinochet
5. Militarized Masculinity, Misogyny, and Mass in Spain and Chile
6. Cinematic Scenes of Gendered Torture in Spain
7. Torture and the Language of Subjugation in Chilean Documentary

8. Unmasking Civilian Complicity in Chilean and Spanish Film
   Conclusion: Reimagining Masculinity to Disrupt Violence
   Afterword by Cynthia Enloe

   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index