List Books » Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina
Authors: Rita Arditti
ISBN-13: 9780520215702, ISBN-10: 0520215702
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: April 1999
Edition: 1st Edition
Rita Arditti is part of the Core Faculty at the College of Graduate Studies of the Union
Institute. She is coeditor of Test-Tube WomenWhat Future for Motherhood? (1984) and Science and Liberation (1980). She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"An acute and impassioned observer, Rita Arditti describes Argentina's 'dirty war' years and the heroic struggle of a group of Argentine grandmothers who set out, against all odds, to trace the whereabouts of their disappeared children and grandchildren. Admirably comprehensive, Searching for Life reminds us how ordinary citizens can stand up to tyranny and prevail. Even today, the evidence collected by this tenacious group of detectives has led to the arrest of one of the military junta leaders, General Jorge Videla. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo are truly the unsung heroes of our time."E ric Stover, Director, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley
"The power of RIta Arditti's Searching for Life lies in its thorough, incontrovertible information, and the irrefutable condition of historical truths. Her book is living, faithful and incorruptible monument that protects us against the dangers of forgetting. Her account is an indispensable weapon for those of us who have been protagonists, and as a way to awaken those who were spectators and those who have opted for the comforts of blindness."Alicia Kozameh, author of Steps Under Water
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Acknowledgments | ||
Acronyms | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Not Just One More Coup | 7 |
2 | The Fall of the Regime | 31 |
3 | The Grandmothers Organize | 50 |
4 | From Terror to Resistance | 79 |
5 | Finding the Children | 102 |
6 | Captive Minds, Captive Lives | 125 |
7 | A New Strategy: The Right to Identity | 144 |
8 | The Politics of Memory | 159 |
Afterword | 171 | |
App. 1 | Biographical Sketches of Grandmothers Interviewed | 173 |
App. 2 | Declaration of Principles and Affidavit of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo | 187 |
Notes | 189 | |
Bibliography | 215 | |
Index | 227 |