La question du genre en situation de conflits armés : l'expérience des femmes combattantes au Pérou (1980-2000)

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The Question of Gender in the Context of Armed Conflicts: The Experience of the Women Combatants of Peru (1980-2000) In Peru, women’s participation in armed struggle is a major phenomenon, with women representing up to 40% of guerilla fighters and often holding positions of leadership. This was particularly true of the Peruvian Communist Party, or Shining Path, one of the conflict’s main protagonists. Yet, in a more general way, women’s participation in the guerilla warriors’ revolutionary struggles reflects a series of profound disruptions that have taken place in Peruvian society since the late 1960s. Feminine subversive activism thus reveals the social and political issues associated, not only with the question of women’s emancipation, but also the role played in the conflict by fundamental institutions such as the school and the family. For women combatants, the conflict’s end was similarly accompanied by specifically gendered violence that underscored, not only the limits of genuine armed emancipation, but also the manner in which gender was used in discourses and practices legitimating the criminalization of armed struggle in Peru. ?