together is an integral component of the day-to-day revolutions taking place” throughout Argentina (Sitrin, 2012: 61). Essentially, the people chose to put “the reproduction of life over the reproduction of capital” (Mason-Deese, 2016: 84). The Plaza de Mayo Mothers movement demonstrates that women’s resistance movements are not only empowering for achieving their individual aims of political change, but for being the living example that women are not confined to stereotypes and norms surrounding the idealisation
Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, or the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, is an association dedicated to protesting the human rights violations carried out by Argentina’s military regime between 1976 and 1983 during the Dirty War. This group is comprised mainly of mothers of citizens who were kidnapped, or “disappeared”, by the government in attempts to silence anti-government sentiments. Families lost their children and, to this day, many families remain desolate of their loved ones. The Mothers continued
the world. This love can drive a mother to do drastic deeds to save her children and her family. The mothers and the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo truly exemplify the power of a mother’s love. Their love was shown during the Dirty War in Argentina in 1976. During this time, the awful military dictatorship run by Jorge Rafael Videla made people disappear to make others scared of speaking out (Goldman 1). The mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo were the only people to stand up against
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The exclusionary nature of political systems of Latin America reached its height under the military governments in the 1970s, particularly in Argentina and Chile . As a consequence of this divisionary rule, women’s participation in collective actions associated with the struggle for their rights and their identity rose significantly in order to combat the prevailing ideological burden of femininity . Women in Latin America began to participate in social protests and manifestations in order to fight
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Morales de Cortinas was one of the mothers in Argentina who lost their child to this corrupt-unknown system. She had explained to the author that her husband had suffered more than she did, and stated: " I only lost a son; he also lost a wife"(Kaplan 103). To be in a situation as that is horrifying, but what these women did was create an organization named Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and as a team they worked together to find out the reasons for these odd disappearances.
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