Surviving beyond fear
Subtitle: women, children and human rights in Latin America
By: edited by Marjorie Agosin ; assistant to the editor, Monica Bruno.
Contributors: Agosín, Marjorie.; Bruno, Monica.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Human rights series ;; v. 2; Human rights series (Fredonia, N.Y.) ;; v. 2.
Publisher: White Pine Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Fredonia, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: 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-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-217).
Table of contents: title: "Those who die for life cannot be called dead" : women and human rights protest in Latin America / Jennifer G. Schirmer; title: Women of valor : an interview with the mothers of Plaza de Mayo / César A. Chelala; title: A tragedy and a miracle : Leonor Alonso and the human cost of state terrorism in Argentina / Marifran Carlson; title: Subversive mothers : the opposition to the military regime in Chile / Patricia M. Chuchryk; title: Surviving beyond fear : women and torture in Latin America / Ximena Bunster; title: The comrades of El Salvador : a case study / Mariclaire Acosta.; title: Children and human rights in Latin America / Elena Nightingale and Rachel E. Wurf; title: "Children in the storm" : psychosocial trauma in Latin America / M. Brinton Lykes; title: Chile : the loss of childhood / Jennifer G. Schirmer; title: The disappeared children of Argentina : the work of the grandmothers of Playa de Mayo / Rita Arditti and M. Brinton Lykes; title: Life and death in El Salvador : a child's testimony / César A. Chelala.