Surviving beyond fear : women, children and human rights in Latin America /

Surviving beyond fear : women, children and human rights in Latin America / edited by Marjorie Agosin ; assistant to the editor, Monica Bruno. - 1st ed. - Fredonia, N.Y. : White Pine Press, c1993. - 217 p. ; 22 cm. - Human rights series ; v. 2 . - Human rights series (Fredonia, N.Y.) ; v. 2. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-217).

"Those who die for life cannot be called dead" : women and human rights protest in Latin America / Jennifer G. Schirmer -- Women of valor : an interview with the mothers of Plaza de Mayo / César A. Chelala -- A tragedy and a miracle : Leonor Alonso and the human cost of state terrorism in Argentina / Marifran Carlson -- Subversive mothers : the opposition to the military regime in Chile / Patricia M. Chuchryk -- Surviving beyond fear : women and torture in Latin America / Ximena Bunster -- The comrades of El Salvador : a case study / Mariclaire Acosta. Children and human rights in Latin America / Elena Nightingale and Rachel E. Wurf -- "Children in the storm" : psychosocial trauma in Latin America / M. Brinton Lykes -- Chile : the loss of childhood / Jennifer G. Schirmer -- The disappeared children of Argentina : the work of the grandmothers of Playa de Mayo / Rita Arditti and M. Brinton Lykes -- Life and death in El Salvador : a child's testimony / Câesar A. Chelala.

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Civil rights--Latin America.
Human rights--Latin America.
Political persecution--Latin America.
Women--Crimes against--Latin America.
Children--Crimes against--Latin America.
Interviews--Latin America.


Latin America--Politics and government--1948-
Latin America--Social conditions--1945-1982.
Latin America--Social conditions--1982-

JC 599 / S963 1993

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