Surviving Beyond Fear (Human Rights Series, Vol 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877727253 ISBN 13: 9781877727252

Publisher: White Pine Press, 2008

Synopsis

This anthology represents a unique contribution to the field of human rights in Latin America by focusing on two very fundamental and neglected areas: women and children. Human rights abuses against women are systematically overlooked by international organizations, although women are very often arrested, abused, and raped as punishment for their political activities or those of their husbands or children. In the Catholic courtiers of Latin America, where the ideal of womanhood is the Madonna, the use of torture and rape to strip a woman of her virtue and threats against her children to make it clear that she has lost the ability to protect them have been common practices in military states. This wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews documents a legacy of human rights abuse throughout Latin America and explores the physical and psychological abuse of women and children, the loss of childhood, and the high cost of state terrorism. Included are interviews with leading figures in the struggle for human rights such as Leonor Alonso and leaders fo the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and articles which discuss how women have come together in the struggle to discover the whereabouts of children and grandchildren who were abducted by the authorities and "disappeared." They show how ordinary women became extraordinary human beings through social and political mobilization and helped to restore democracy in their countries by continuing to speak on behalf of an entire missing generation so that their struggle will not be forgotten.

About this title

About the Author

Marjorie Agosin is a poet, writer and human rights activist. She is also a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College and editor of our Secret Weavers Series.

Reviews

In April 1954 Fried, called to testify before the Committee on Un-American activities, challenged the committee's constitutional right to exist. This is the story of that challenge, of the personal struggle that preceded it, and of the results. The story is compelling. Unfortunately, the book suffers from repetitive phrases and explanations, which interrupt the flow of the story. Cliches abound, and captions under photographs are awkward, often using the real names of people who appear in the novel under fictitious names. The story deserves better, and we have a right to expect better from a noted playwright and winner of the 1991 "Individual Artist Award" for lifetime contribution to the arts.
- Marcia Dorey, Northwest Missouri State Univ. Lib., Maryville
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Edition details

• Publisher: White Pine Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1877727253
• ISBN 13: 9781877727252
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 217
• Editor: Agosin Marjorie, Bruno Galmozzi Monica