Of old and new crazy women: The Madres and Mothers of May against State violence
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https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v0i29.18502Keywords:
Mothers of May Square, Mothers of May, State violenceAbstract
In this article we develop a comparative analysis of the Mothers of May Square of Argentinaand the Mothers of May in contemporary Brazil. The former arose during the last Argentinemilitary dictatorship, meeting silently in May Square to demand information on the disappearanceof their political activist children, as well as their grandchildren, who in some cases hadbeen brutally stolen by the torturers. The latter appears on the political stage soon after thecrimes of May 2006, period consolidated liberal democracy and exalted by many people, whenthe state of São Paulo police commits the massacre of more than 400 people. As in the firstcase, these women are also considered crazy for demanding information from the Brazilianstate about the murders of their children.
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2012-12-19
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Gonçalves, R. (2012). Of old and new crazy women: The Madres and Mothers of May against State violence. Lutas Sociais, (29), 130–143. https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v0i29.18502
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