Discussion meeting on memory and gender (IIGG)

Discussion meeting on memory and gender: “The construction of memory in generic terms from the militant narratives of the PRT-ERP”

Guest: Paola Martínez

Commentary by: Mabel Bellucci and Evangelina Margiolakis

Abstract: This meeting will focus on Chapter 4 of the book *Family, Motherhood, and Prison in the Militant Narratives of the PRT-ERP* (Maipue, 2025). In “Domesticity and Situated Memory,” two sets of interviews with women who were members of the PRT-ERP in the 1970s are analyzed. The testimonies are examined from two perspectives. First, as a category that allows us to access social, historical, and material phenomena through the different ways of remembering events. Second, the other analytical approach is gender, based on observing processes of desexualization and denaturalization of domestic work as exclusively feminine, in a context where social roles were beginning to be questioned in some militant spaces. These transformations occurred amidst significant tensions, depending on the workplace, region, age, and social class. This addresses topics related to domesticity, the family and its transformation in some areas of the organization, the female performance in the militant field, militant motherhood and its social role, the body as a space of representation and the displacements and tensions that were experienced in terms of female stereotypes.

Paola Martínez holds a degree in History from the Joaquín V. González Institute, a Bachelor's degree in History from the National University of Luján, and a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies of Subjectivity from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires. She also holds a diploma in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (University of Buenos Aires) and is currently a doctoral candidate in History (University of Buenos Aires). She is the author of *Gender, Politics and Revolution in the 1970s: The Women of the PRT-ERP* (Imago Mundo, 2009; Maipue, 2015), co-author of *Women and Politics in 20th-Century Conflict Scenarios* (L. Pasquali, 2016, Conicet), and *Family, Motherhood and Prison in the Militant Narratives of the PRT-ERP* (Maipue, 2025).

Mabel Bellucci is an archivist, editor, activist, and queer feminist researcher. She holds a Master's degree from the Interdisciplinary Specialization in Women's Studies at the Faculty of Psychology (University of Buenos Aires). Her research focuses on political coalitions between feminisms, the LGBTQ+ community, human rights, and anti-capitalist left-wing movements. She co-directed and wrote for the online journal Moléculas Malucas: Queer Archives and Memories Outside the Margins, alongside Juan Queiroz. Her most recent books are: Orgullo: A Political Biography of Carlos Jáuregui (Marea, 2026) and Carolina Muzilli: Worker, Socialist, and Feminist (Marea, 2024).

Evangelina Margiolakis holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. She directs the UBACYT Project: “The 1980s in Communication and Culture: Transition, Reception, and Processes of Institutionalization.” She is the editor, along with Rodolfo Gómez and Cecilia Palacios, of the book Communication and Culture in Dictatorship and Transition: Practices and Conceptualizations (Tren en Movimiento, 2025) and the author of Subway Constellations: Countercultural Press in Dictatorship and Transition (Tren en Movimiento, 2025).

Organized by: UBACYT Project: “The eighties in communication and culture: transition, reception and institutionalization processes”.

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