Crystal Whetstone is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University’s International Relations Department. Her research contributes to feminist perspectives on peace, violence, security and justice. She focuses on motherhood.

Crystal Whetstone provides a highly meticulous and nuanced (re) examination of the perceived legacies of two significant maternal peace movements – Argentina’s Madres of the Plaza de Mayo and Sri Lanka’s Mother’s Front – and successfully uncovers the broader transformative potential of political motherhood. Legacies of Political Motherhood in Argentina and Sri Lanka holds urgent lessons for resistance and peace building that are foundational and crucial in envisioning feminist futures.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Women’s Peace Movements and Political Motherhood1: Remembering and Forgetting2: Political Motherhood3: Windows of Opportunity4: Global VisibilityConclusion: Legacies of the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo and Mother’s Front

Crystal Whetstone is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University’s International Relations Department. Her research contributes to feminist perspectives on peace, violence, security and justice. She focuses on motherhood.

Crystal Whetstone provides a highly meticulous and nuanced (re) examination of the perceived legacies of two significant maternal peace movements – Argentina’s Madres of the Plaza de Mayo and Sri Lanka’s Mother’s Front – and successfully uncovers the broader transformative potential of political motherhood. Legacies of Political Motherhood in Argentina and Sri Lanka holds urgent lessons for resistance and peace building that are foundational and crucial in envisioning feminist futures.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Women’s Peace Movements and Political Motherhood1: Remembering and Forgetting2: Political Motherhood3: Windows of Opportunity4: Global VisibilityConclusion: Legacies of the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo and Mother’s Front

Crystal Whetstone is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University’s International Relations Department. Her research contributes to feminist perspectives on peace, violence, security and justice. She focuses on motherhood.

Crystal Whetstone provides a highly meticulous and nuanced (re) examination of the perceived legacies of two significant maternal peace movements – Argentina’s Madres of the Plaza de Mayo and Sri Lanka’s Mother’s Front – and successfully uncovers the broader transformative potential of political motherhood. Legacies of Political Motherhood in Argentina and Sri Lanka holds urgent lessons for resistance and peace building that are foundational and crucial in envisioning feminist futures.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Women’s Peace Movements and Political Motherhood1: Remembering and Forgetting2: Political Motherhood3: Windows of Opportunity4: Global VisibilityConclusion: Legacies of the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo and Mother’s Front