Capitalism, violence against women, and the last dictatorship in Argentina: An analysis from a Marxist feminist perspective

Abstract

The aim of the present article is to formulate an analysis of the women’s position in relationship with the economic plan defined by the latest Argentinean disctatorship (1976-1983). The perspective we adopt is the Marxist feminism and we analyse three defined scales: the international, national and local. Specificly, we analyse: the so called “Operación Cóndor” in its connection with the dictatorships in the South of the Continent, as a plan supported by the United States in the cold war against Comunism; in the national scale, we analyse some public discourses about women in its relationship with the neoliberal plan of Ministry of Economy; the local scale of concentration camps in Argentina during the dictatorship and the violence against women commited there. The main goal is to observe the link between the rol of women (mothers, wifes, housewives, etc.) and capitalistic economy. Concerning methodology, it is based on the formulation of some theoretical bases form Marxist feminism and the analysis of different discourses on the basis of secondary bibliography. It is considered that discourses are part of dispositives which are inscribed in bodies.