The personal is political. Moral authoritarianism and female teachers in the Uruguayan dictatorship (1973-1984)

Authors

  • Diego Sempol University of the Republic, Uruguay

Keywords:

Uruguayan dictatorship, gender, moral authoritarianism, primary education, National Security Doctrine

Abstract

This article analyzes the forms of moral persecution deployed against primary education teachers during the Uruguayan dictatorial regime (1973-1984), seeking to address the modalities shown in the evolution of a long-term State paternalism and the curbs imposed on emerging generational changes in gender relations through the institutional promotion of a binary and traditional model.

Author Biography

Diego Sempol, University of the Republic, Uruguay

Diego Sempol, PhD in Social Sciences, is a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic, Uruguay. He is also the coordinator of the “Sociedades en Movimiento” Archive. His areas of work are recent history, gender, sexualities, and social movements, on which he has numerous publications at the local and international levels. His publications include “Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Latin American Social Movements”, co-authored with N. Johnson, in Federico M. Rossi (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2023) and De los baños a la calle. Historia del movimiento lésbico gay trans uruguayo 1984-2013 (Debate, Montevideo 2013).

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Published

15-11-2023

How to Cite

Sempol, D. (2023). The personal is political. Moral authoritarianism and female teachers in the Uruguayan dictatorship (1973-1984). Elephant & Castle, (30), 41–48. Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/462

Issue

No. 30 (2023): Movement I. Generations, histories, transformations

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Articoli

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