“The barracks receives spoiled children and returns men”:Debating Military Service, Masculinity and Nation-Building in Argentina, 1901–1930

Abstract

In 1918 an anonymous conscript writing toLa Protesta, an anarchist paper known for its anti-militarism, complained about life in the Argentine navy. The military was a “school of vice” where everyone was reduced to a number and was subject to the most cruel and random subordination. The conscript fumed, “You even lose control of your hair.”