Denuncias y marcos de escucha para la violencia sexual en tribunales militares durante la última dictadura argentina (1976-1983)

Abstract

At this paper we analyze a number of sexual violence reports portrayed by women citizens against military personnel during the last military dictatorship in Argentina.We consider that analyzing those reports allows us to visualize how the sexist practices that we know that were taking place inside the clandestine detention centers also occurred outside them. The concentracionary power assumed similar characteristics outside the clandestine detention centers and that was because of the power that State Terrorism gave to the military personnel.In this research, the gender perspective allows, firstly, to deepen the analysis of everyday life during the last military dictatorship. Secondly, it allows us to inquire about hierarchical gender relations within our society, which, although not static, preceded and followed the military government. However, the military regime sought to reinforce such hierarchical gender relations during the period of State Terrorism both inside and outside clandestine detention centers.In that sense, the analysis of the selected cases shows, both with the reiteration of the cases and the mechanisms to discourage the reports, how the sexual violence was present further the boundaries of clandestine detention centers (in temporal and spacial terms). Furthermore, it shows how sexists’ myths and the discrimination towards women that impregnated the judicial system didn’t allow an audibility framework for the reports.