The captivity of former young female combatants of colombian armed groups

The article analyzes the situations that girls and young women who have demobilized from the Colombian armed conflict face due to the fact that they are women in the context of a patriarchal culture. These young ex-combatants, after a process that took them from childhood to war to the return to civ...

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Autores:
Chamorro Caicedo, Luz Stella
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2012
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/72014
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/72014
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/36486/
Palabra clave:
political sciences
gender studies
captivity
armed conflict
patriarchal culture
discourse
feminine identity
social intervention
cautiverios
conflicto armado
patriarcado
discurso
identidad femenina
intervención social
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openAccess
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Summary:The article analyzes the situations that girls and young women who have demobilized from the Colombian armed conflict face due to the fact that they are women in the context of a patriarchal culture. These young ex-combatants, after a process that took them from childhood to war to the return to civilian life, construct discourses and question power relations in their search for wellbeing. These women are imprisoned by their contradictory feelings with respect to their gender and this situation will condition their lives as long as their discourses regarding respect for their gender are not addressed and resignified. Social Work seeks to question those relations, address discourse that have been silenced, rebuild a feminine identity, and resignify its affective bonds.