"The barracks receives spoiled children and returns men": Debating Military Service, Masculinity and Nation-Building in Argentina, 1901–1930. Issue 3 (9th June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ablard, Jonathan D.
• Is Part Of: Americas. Volume 74:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 299
• Page End: 329
• Publication Date: 2017-06-09
• Subjects: America -- History -- Periodicals; Latin America -- History -- Periodicals; United States -- Relations -- Latin America -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Relations -- United States -- Periodicals; AMERICA LATINA -- HISTORIA -- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS; ESTADOS UNIDOS -- RELACIONES EXTERIORES -- AMERICA LATINA -- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS; AMERICA LATINA -- RELACIONES -- ESTADOS UNIDOS -- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS; Electronic journals; 970.05
• DOI: 10.1017/tam.2017.43
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-1615

Abstract

Abstract : In 1918 an anonymous conscript writing to La Protesta, an anarchist paper known for its anti-militarism, complained about life in the Argentine navy. The military was a "school of vice" where everyone was reduced to a number and was subject to the most cruel and random subordination. The conscript fumed, "You even lose control of your hair."