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

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This social and cultural history of Argentina’s “long sixties” argues that the nation’s younger generation used to be at the epicenter of a public struggle over democracy, authoritarianism, and revolution from the mid-twentieth century in the course of the ruthless military dictatorship that seized power in 1976. Valeria Manzano demonstrates how, right through this period, large numbers of youths built on their history of in advance activism and pushed forward closely linked agendas of sociocultural modernization and political radicalization.

Focusing also at the views of adults who assessed, and from time to time profited from, youth culture, Manzano analyzes countercultural formations–including rock music, sexuality, student life, and communal living experiences–and situates them in an international context. She details how, at the same time as Argentines of every age yearned for newness and change, it used to be young individuals who championed the transformation of deep-seated traditions of social, cultural, and political life. The significance of youth used to be not lost at the leaders of the rising junta: people aged sixteen to thirty accounted for 70 percent of the estimated 20,000 Argentines who were “disappeared” right through the regime.

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