The Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Perón to Videla

355 Pages·2014·2.66 MB·English

by  Manzano Valeria

The Age of Youth in Argentina

The Age of Youth in Argentina
culture, politics, and sexuality
from perón to videla
Valeria Manzano
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Manzano, Valeria.
The age of youth in Argentina : culture, politics, and sexuality from Perón to
Videla / Valeria Manzano.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-1-4696-1161-7 (pbk.) — isbn 978-1-4696-1163-1 (ebook)
1. Youth—Political activity—Argentina—History—20th century. 2. Youth—
Argentina—Social conditions—20th century. 3. Counterculture—Argentina—
History—20th century. 4. Social change—Argentina—History—20th century.
5. Politics and culture—Argentina—History—20th century. 6. Argentina—Politics
and government—1943–1955. 7. Argentina—Politics and government—1955–1983.
I. Title.
hq799.a7m36 2014
320.40835—dc23 2013041152
Portions of this work appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, in “The Blue Jean
Generation: Youth, Gender and Sexuality in Buenos Aires, 1958–75,” Journal of Social
History 42:3 (Spring 2009): 657–76, and “Rock nacional, Revolutionary Politics, and the
Making of a Youth Culture of Contestation in Argentina, 1966–76,” The Americas 70:3
(January 2014), and are reprinted here with permission.
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
the age of youth
1 ► Carving Out a Place for Youth 20
2 ► The World of the Students 44
3 ► Surfing the New Wave 69
music, leisure, and consumption
4 ► She’s Leaving Home 97
young women, gender, and sexuality
5 ► A Fraternity of Long-Haired Boys 123
rock and a youth culture of contestation
6 ► Close to the Revolution 158
the politicization of youth
7 ► Poner el cuerpo 193
the youth body between eroticism
and revolutionary politics
8 ► Youth and the “Authority-Reconstitution” Project 221
Conclusion 248
Notes 257
Bibliography 301
Index 331
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Illustrations
The girls of the UES, Esto es, 1954 27
Shot from Los jóvenes viejos 37
Shot from El Club del Clan, Palito Ortega 81
Cartoon of náufragos,Atlántida, 1967 135
A new fatherhood, Buenos Aires Rock Festival, 1971 146
Juventud Universitaria Peronista rally, Buenos Aires, 1973 180
Waiting for Perón’s return, Ezeiza airport, 1973 186
Miniskirts in Buenos Aires, c. 1967 195
“Let’s put the house in order,” Gente, 1976 232
Advertisement for Flecha sneakers, Gente, 1976 234