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Sustaining Human Rights

Women and Argentine Human Rights Organizations
  • ISBN-13: 9780271032658
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Michelle D. Bonner
  • Price: AUD $67.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2008
  • Format: Paperback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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The “disappearance” and torture of many people during the worst days of the authoritarian regimes that ruled many Latin American countries in the 1970s have been well documented and widely condemned as abuses of human rights. Less well known is what has become of the movements for human rights once democratic governments were restored in these countries. In this book, Michelle Bonner reveals how the defense of human rights continues today, taking Argentina as her primary example (with comparison to Chile in the final chapter).

Bonner shows that the role of women—viewed as protectors of the family—is key to understanding how human rights movements have evolved. Moreover, the continuity of the “historical frames” used to legitimate their activity is an essential element in the success of their efforts, even while the claimed abuse has changed from the political repression undertaken by the dictators’ minions to the economic hardships created by market inequities resulting from neoliberal policies.

Based on extensive field research and providing a long historical view extending from colonial times to the present, this study compares the activities of the ten most prominent human rights organizations in Argentina and assesses the responses of both state and society.


Contents

List of Diagrams and Tables

Acknowledgments

Acronyms and Abbreviations

1. Sustaining Human Rights

2. Historical Frames: Colonialism to the 1976 Coup

3. Historical Frames: The Dirty War and Democratization, 1976–2002

4. Human Rights Organizations: Historical Frames as Collective Action Frames

5. The State and Human Rights Organizations: National and International Courts

6. Human Rights Organizations and Society: Demonstrations and the Media

7. Sustaining Human Rights: A Brief Comparison with Chile

Appendixes

Bibliography

Index



“This thoughtful, original study shows how women’s human rights movements in Argentina adopted and extended gendered historical frames to forge a new political vocabulary for the promotion of human rights. Its comprehensive coverage of Argentina’s path-breaking experience and its theoretical contribution, deepening our understanding of framing and the struggle for political legitimacy, should be of wide interest in Latin American studies, women’s studies, political science, history, and sociology.”

—Alison Brysk, University of California, Irvine

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