Las mujeres en la guerra : imágenes, guerra y conflicto armado en Colombia

Abstract

The objective of this work is to problematize the gender category in war’s visuality. In this sense, it investigates, in the first place, the ways in which the participation of women in the war was narrated by means of a journey throughout some historical and literary accounts of antiquity and the Middle Ages and some visual testimonies of the gender in photographs of World War II press. All of this with the intention of highlighting the complexities to which the narration of women and the representation of gender has been subject based on the roles they assume, the position in which they are found and the place from which they are narrated. In this way, we introduce the importance of a broader approach to the issue through the study of images and visual studies. Then, the work is focused on the armed conflict and the transition to peace in Colombia to analyze the visuality of gender in press photographs of women in the roles of victims and combatants and ask: what does gender tell us about war in the country? Moreover, in what way does gender constitute a category capable of reinforcing the invisibility of tragedy and pain?