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Author Manzano, Valeria, author.

Title The age of youth in Argentina : culture, politics, and sexuality from Perón to Videla / Valeria Manzano
Published Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History
Contents Carving out a place for youth -- The world of the students -- Surfing the new wave -- She's leaving home -- A fraternity of long-haired boys -- Close to the revolution -- Poner el cuerpo -- Youth and the "Authority Reconstitution" project
Summary "This social and cultural history of Argentina's "long sixties" argues that the nation's younger generation was at the epicenter of a public struggle over democracy, authoritarianism, and revolution from the mid-twentieth century through the ruthless military dictatorship that seized power in 1976. Valeria Manzano demonstrates how, during this period, large numbers of youths built on their history of earlier activism and pushed forward closely linked agendas of sociocultural modernization and political radicalization. Focusing also on the views of adults who assessed, and sometimes 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, while Argentines of all ages yearned for newness and change, it was young people who championed the transformation of deep-seated traditions of social, cultural, and political life. The significance of youth was not lost on the leaders of the rising junta: people aged sixteen to thirty accounted for 70 percent of the estimated 20,000 Argentines who were "disappeared" during the regime."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Youth -- Political activity -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Youth -- Argentina -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Counterculture -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Politics and culture -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
Counterculture
Social change
Youth -- Political activity
Youth -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1943-1955. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007066
Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1955-1983. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007068
Subject Argentina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013041152
ISBN 9781469611624
1469611627
9781469611631
1469611635