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- Title
Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom.
- Authors
EVERLY, KATHRYN A.
- Abstract
Libertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender, the films question and ultimately redefine the wartime docudrama genre. The queering of gender and genre leads to alternative versions of history that upend the very idea of historical accuracy. The female bodies in the films transgress entrenched binary gender norms, thus creating a uniquely queer representation of female solidarity in the docudrama genre.
- Subjects
LIBERTARIAS (Film); LAND &; Freedom (Film); SPANISH Civil War, 1936-1939; DOCUDRAMA; DOCUMENTARY films
- Publication
Journal of Gender & Sexuality Studies / Revista de Estudios de Géneros y Sexualidades, 2021, Vol 47, Issue 1, p135
- ISSN
2637-9961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14321/jgendsexustud.47.1.0135