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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Groundbreaking in terms of methodology . . .
Disruptive Archives affirms the power of women's storytelling and memory as they participate as actors, narrators, and politically militant protagonsists. . . . Highly recommended." --
Choice"MacManus offers a deft contribution to the study of Latin American political repression by keeping women's participation in resistance struggles at the center of her feminist intertextual analyses of oral histories and literary and audiovisual pieces."--Pascha Bueno-Hansen, author of
Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional JusticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction. “All of Latin America Is Sown with the Bones of [its] Forgotten Youth”: Hemispheric State Terror and Latin American Feminist Theories of Justice
Chapter One. Critical Latin American Feminist Perspectives and the Limits and Possibilities of Human Rights Reports
Chapter Two. Sexual Necropolitics, Survival, and the Gender of Betrayal
Chapter Three. “Ghosts of Another Era”: Gendered Haunting and the Legacy of Women’s Armed Resistance
Chapter Four. Gendered Memories, Collective Subjectivity, and Solidarity Practices in Women’s Oral Histories
Epilogue. The Legacy of State-Sanctioned Violence and Specters of the Dirty War’s Radical Women
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