Wislawa Szymborska

Marguerite Guzman Bouvard

Jane Hirshfield

Lars Gustafsson

Christopher Bursk

T. Weiss

Selected Poems, Alaya, Little Harbor, Journeys Over Water, Selected Poems

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The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Latin American Silhouettes)

Revolutionizing Motherhood

This collection of memoirs and stories - an anthology by women writers from diverse ethnic backgrounds - reveals how our own identities are shaped by our grandmothers' histories. Grandmothers: Granddaughters Remember explodes stereotypes of older women and reveals them in all their complexity. Each writer has experienced her grandmother differently, from enjoying her as a mentor to rebelling against - and ultimately adopting - her outlook. And a few of them had to create their own grandmother stories from fragments gleaned from family histories.

Granddaughters Remember

Grandmothers

In Women Reshaping Human Rights, ordinary - yet extraordinary - individuals tell their stories. Readers will meet Vera Laska, who joined the Resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing, who fights the Communist Party's grip upon the government in the People's Republic of China; and Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers of East Los Angeles, who challenge drug dealers and toxic polluters threatening their neighborhood.

How Extraordinary Activists are Changing the World

Women Reshaping Human Rights

Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years. During the Argentine junta's Dirty War against subversives, as tens of thousands were abducted, tortured, and disappeared, a group of women forged the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and changed Argentine politics forever. The Mothers began in the 1970s as an informal group of working-class housewives making the rounds of prisons and military barracks in search of their disappeared children. As they realized that both state and church officials were conspiring to withhold information, they started to protest, claiming the administrative center of Argentina the Plaza de Mayo for their center stage. In this volume, Marguerite G. Bouvard traces the history of the Mothers and examines how they have transformed maternity from a passive, domestic role to one of public strength. Bouvard also gives a detailed history of contemporary Argentina, including the military's debacle in the Falklands, the fall of the junta, and the efforts of subsequent governments to reach an accord with the Mothers. Finally, she examines their current agenda and their continuing struggle to bring the murderers of their children to justice.

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Marguerite Guzman Bouvard

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