Feminisms, Historiographies and Border Territories. The wars and the formation of the Andean and Paraná Triple-frontiers (19th century)

Abstract

The article presents a review of the state-of-the-art on the role of women in the armed conflicts that shaped the Andean Triple-border-Area (between Bolivia, Chile and Peru) and the Paraná Triple-border-Area (between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay) in the 19th century. To summarize these debates, we will start by carrying out, in the second section, a discussion of the analytical categories that underlie the gender shift in the historiographical perspective influenced by the feminist debates in that field. We will also discuss their areas of interpellation with the studies of inequality and gender violence in border territories. In the third section, we offer a synthetic description of the current configuration of the two border contexts that we will analyze. In the fourth section, we will delve into the wars that constructed the Andean Triple-border-Area in the 19th century, while in the fifth, we will debate the war that shaped the Triple-border-Area of the Paraná River. We conclude with our comparative analyzes, discussing the concept of ultraintensity patriarchy.