Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina by Barbara Sutton
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Overview: Based on oral testimonies of women who survived clandestine detention centers during a period of state terrorism in Argentina (1976–83), this book illuminates the gendered and embodied forms of trauma that women endured as well as their historical and political agency. Through the lens of the body as a transversal theme, the book reveals multiple gendered dimensions of experience during captivity and beyond. While sexual violence as a weapon of state terror is addressed, the book transcends this focus to show more subtle dynamics of gender inscription through torture. Similarly, though the study attends to motherhood ideologies and the egregious treatment of pregnant women in captivity, it also explores women’s experiences beyond maternity. In contrast to much work on human rights violations in Argentina and other parts of Latin America, which focuses on family members of the disappeared, this book brings to the fore the stories of women who themselves were forcibly disappeared, but ultimately survived. Surviving State Terror includes accounts of the specific forms of victimization that women experienced, but it also incorporates women’s narratives of solidarity, resistance, and political organizing. Attending to women’s perspectives on social change, human rights, and democracy, the book highlights the importance of their testimonies beyond experiences of captivity. Through these poignant stories, the book connects past, present, and future: it draws on the urgent lessons that women survivors offer to a world that continues to grapple with atrocity and underscores the vital role of collective organizing as a means of social transformation.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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