La corporalidad de las guerreras: una miradad sobre las mujeres combatientes desde el cuerpo y el lenguaje.

• Main Author: Luz María Londoño.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2005-08-01
• Series: Revista de Estudios Sociales
• Subjects: Gender; war; women conbatants; violence; body; language.
• Online Access: http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/459/1.php

The women incursion in the world of war has been a phenomena in which few research have been made. Nowadays, your growing presence as combatants in contemporary wars, in which the Colombian war is included, claims for a academic reflection that seeks to explain the whole meaning of the phenomena. With the support of contemporary trends of thought, particularly the feminism of the difference, the present article aims for an approximation to the topic that places at the core of the analysis woman's speech and body, this as a place and tool where the war is lived, signified and narrated; thus, searching for new interpretative paths that permit recover and translate accurately the combatants' voices. Combatants that have been traditionally diminished both in the war drama and in the searching of peace.