Hebe's Story

About the Book

Hebe’s Story, through the translated words of Hebe de Bonafini, traces the impact of the Dirty War in Argentina on an organization of the mothers of the 30,000 “disappeared”. By the downfall of the dictatorship in 1983, these women were symbols of non-violent political action and an inspiration for women’s peaceful protest groups around the world.

But the story of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo does not neatly end there; it continues as the Mothers evolved in new and surprising, even shocking, ways. The image of the Mothers movement as a model of peaceful protest now needs to be reconsidered.

About the Author

Patricia Owen Steiner began her translating career with The Banners of the Champions, an anthology of medieval Arabic poetry of Andalusia, (Hispanic Seminary of Mediaeval Studies, 1989). For the past fifteen years the focus of her translation and writing has been on Argentina. Her 1995 translation of Guiraldes’ Argentine classic Don Segundo Sombra was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the UNESCO Archivos edition. In 1999 the University of New Mexico Press published her Victoria Ocampo: Writer, Feminist, Woman of the World. Most recently, she contributed a great many of the translations for the anthology, The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2002).