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Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina

Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina


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This volume 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. Acting as both detectives and human rights advocates in an effort to find and recover their grandchildren, the Grandmothers identified 57 of an estimated 500 children who had been kidnapped or born in detention centres. The Grandmothers' work also led to the creation of the National Genetic Data Bank, the only bank of its kind in the world, and to Article 8 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the "right to identity", that is now incorporated in the new adoption legislation in Argentina.

Table 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.

Review :
"Arditti writes with tremendous clarity. . . . The book illuminates the many layers of this complex story. Searching for Life is about Argentine (and world) history."--"Cambio


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520211131
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 251
  • Sub Title: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520211138
  • Publisher Date: 19 Apr 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 590 gr


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