The maternal contract : a subaltern response to extreme violence in the americas / Elva F. Orozco Mendoza.
| Author/creator | F. Orozco Mendoza, Elva author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | ix, 217 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics. ^A1370604 |
| Contents | Introduction: On protection and care -- two visions of politics -- Toward a political theory of the maternal contract -- Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo: creating a circle of love and love -- Feminicide, gender injustice, and maternal accompaniment at the edge of coloniality -- Unburying the dead: Colectivo Solecito's forensic caretaking in Veracruz -- All prisoners are somebody's children: mothers ROC, resisting captivity, reclaiming freedom -- Conclusion: The promise of care. |
| Abstract | "The Maternal Contract centers caring and caretaking practices adopted by family members, mostly mothers (but also grandmothers, fathers, sisters, wives, and others), as they fight for their disappeared, imprisoned, and murdered relatives directly targeted or impacted by extreme state violence and structural state abandonment. The book engages critical social contract theory, decolonial feminism, and feminist critiques of extreme gender-based violence to examine the formation of mothers' organizations in response to forced disappearance, feminicide, targeted killings, and imprisonment in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States from the late 1970s to the present. Drawing on insights from Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Las Madres de Chihuahua, Colectivo Solecito, and Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (MROC), the book theorizes "the maternal contract," a framework that underscores how mothers' organizations create and implement their own caretaking structures in the absence of substantive political rights and representation. The Maternal Contract illustrates how autonomous mothers' organizations build more caring institutions to provide solutions to the mass production of collective suffering. In so doing, the book responds to ongoing calls to recuperate, listen, and amplify those voices that liberal feminism and mainstream political theory frequently silence and deauthorize, while positing mothers' organizations and collectives as key political actors enacting larger struggles for liberation and emancipation-and as undeterred figures with a vision for building better care institutions to help heal chronic violence in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: F. Orozco Mendoza, Elva. Maternal contract New York : Oxford University Press, 2025 9780197808276 |
| LCCN | 2025023686 |
| ISBN | 9780197808269 |
| ISBN | 0197808263 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780197808252 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0197808255 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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