Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom Author(s): Kathryn A. Everly Source: Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies / Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades , 2021, Vol. 47, No. 1, El género ilimitado: Márgenes, rupturas y transgresiones en el cine luso-hispánico (2021), pp. 135-154 Published by: Michigan State University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/jgendsexustud.47.1.0135 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Michigan State University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies / Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades This content downloaded from 128.230.44.92 on Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:40:09 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Artículo | Article Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom Kathryn A. Everly Syracuse University Abstract Libertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender, the films question and ultimately redefine the wartime docudrama genre.