'Uncircumcised boys' and 'girl Spartans': Youth, Gender and Generation in Colonial Insurgencies and Counterinsurgency, c. 1954–59.

Both male and female youth were significant actors in anti‐colonial insurgencies, but their involvement has been neglected in existing historiographies due to the marginalisation of youth voices in colonial archives. This article analyses the causes of youth insurgency and colonial counterinsurgency...

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Publicado en:Gender & History Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 536 - 557
Autor principal: Hynd, Stacey
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2021
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