Searching for Life - The Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo Disappeared Children of Argentina

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List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Introduction

ONE Not Just One More Coup
TWO The Fall of the Regime
THREE The Grandmothers Organize
FOUR From Terror to Resistance
FIVE Finding the Children
SIX Captive Minds, Captive Lives
SEVEN A New Strategy: The Right to Identity
EIGHT The Politics of Memory

Afterword
Appendix One: Biographical Sketches
of Grandmothers Interviewed
Appendix Two: Declaration of Principles
and Affidavit of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Rita Arditti is part of the Core Faculty at the College of Graduate Studies of the Union Institute. She is coeditor of Test-Tube Women—What Future for Motherhood? (1984) and Science and Liberation (1980). She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Summary

Traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of women who challenged the ruthless dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

Product details

• Authors: Rita Arditti, Arditti Rita
• Assisted by: Rita Arditti (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.1999
• EAN: 9780520215702
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21570-2
• No. of pages: 251
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Gender studies, gender groups, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas