Abstract
In this essay, we discuss issues of motherhood and political identity through a woman's civil war experience based on clinical consultations by the first author. Her experience involved trauma and the restructuring of her life in her community's social dynamics. We analyze her experience through a narrative and feminist lens to discuss issues of motherhood and political identity. We explore how some women involved in human rights in Colombia have been forced to transform their lives in order to adapt to the ever-changing nature of the armed conflict group's demands. We discuss issues of identity in this woman's role as mother, community leader and worker within the social context of war by analyzing the discrepancies that women experience in their daily lives. We conclude that the contradictory demands she faced from the guerillas, the military and the paramilitary, made it untenable for her to be simultaneously a mother and a community organizer.
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