E. IV.2.a. Resisting Dictatorship

Arditti, Rita Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared children of Argentina, Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1999 , pp. 251

Barros, Mercedes Human Rights Movement and Discourse: Its Emergence and Constitution in Argentina, Villa Maria, Eduvim, 2012 , pp. 282

Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Wilmington Delaware, Scholarly Resources Inc., 1994 , pp. 278

Brysk, Alison The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization, Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1994 , pp. 308

See also the recent discussion between Amy Risley and Brysk, pp. 83-113, in Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, Contention in Context: Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest (A. 6. Nonviolent Action and Social Movements) .

Fisher, Jo Mothers of the Disappeared, London, Zed Books, 1989 , pp. 168

Graham-Yool, Andrew A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina’s Nightmare, London, Eland, 1986 , pp. 180

As a journalist in Argentina the author tried to compile a day-to-day chronicle of violence and repression – he was forced into exile in 1976.

Mellibovsky, Matilde Circle of Love over Death: Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Willimantic CT, Curbstone Press, 1997 , pp. 249

By one of the founding Madres.

From Military Rule to Liberal Democracy in Argentina, ed. Ramos, Monica; Waisman, Carlos, Boulder CO, Westview Press, 1987 , pp. 196

Chapter by Juan E. Corradi on ‘The Culture of Fear in Civil Society’, pp. 113-129.

Simpson, John; Bennett, Jana The Disappeared and the Mothers of the Plaza, New York, St. Martins Press, 1985 , pp. 416

Websites recommended

A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina’s Nightmare London Eland, 1986

As a journalist in Argentina the author tried to compile a day-to-day chronicle of violence and repression – he was forced into exile in 1976.

Circle of Love over Death: Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Willimantic CT Curbstone Press, 1997

By one of the founding Madres.

From Military Rule to Liberal Democracy in Argentina Boulder CO Westview Press, 1987

Chapter by Juan E. Corradi on ‘The Culture of Fear in Civil Society’, pp. 113-129.

Mothers of the Disappeared London Zed Books, 1989
Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Wilmington Delaware Scholarly Resources Inc., 1994
The Disappeared and the Mothers of the Plaza New York St. Martins Press, 1985