Female networks and gender violence in the Buenos Aires borderlands. Women and blandengue deserters at the end of the 18th century

In between the studies of the Rio de la Plata borderlands and the history of women in colonial society, this paper analyzes a legal corpus of trials of deserters from the Blandengues company of Buenos Aires at the end of the Eighteenth century to trace the presence of women on this border region. We track down different forms of male violence against women through this military documentation, from domestic abuse, kidnaping, and rape, and identify female agency through their family networks and emotional ties.