Elizabeth Jelin is a Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET) and the Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES) in Buenos Aires. A foundational figure in the development of Memory Studies as a discipline, she is the author of numerous books, of which several have been translated into English.

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Past: Conflictive and Never-Ending
Chapter 2. Building a Research Field: Memory and Gender in Latin American Social Sciences
Chapter 3. Explorations, Certainties, and Uncertainties: The Human Rights Movement and Building Democracy in Argentina
Chapter 4. Markers of Memory: Dates, Places, Archives
Chapter 5. Victims, Relatives, or Citizens? Whose Voices are Legitimate Enough?
Chapter 6. Sexual Abuse as a Crime against Humanity and the Right to Privacy
Chapter 7. Taking the Floor: Testimonial Voices over Time
Chapter 8. Memory-for what? Towards a More Democratic Future

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