  Amid military regimes, the 1970s were characterized by a mobilization of women that took motherhood to be a political category. In some countries, women resisted state repression as mothers of those who had disappeared at the hands of the state (Gargallo 2004: 113). The CoMadres (Comité de Madres) of El Salvador formed in 1977 to investigate the disappearance of missing relatives. They photographed the bodies of people found in the streets of El Salvador in order to aid in identification. In the same year, the Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina organized as mothers to search for their disappeared children as a result of state terrorism enacted by the military dictatorship that spanned the years of 1976–1983. In Mexico, critical stances on motherhood were initiated by the neofeminist group Mujeres en Acción Solidaria (MAS), which protested the sanctifying myth of motherhood on the eve of Mother’s Day at El Monumento a la Madre (a monument honoring mothers) in Mexico City. They resisted the myth that a woman’s role in society should be circumscribed to motherhood (Gutiérrez 2012: 42). The protest continued in the years that followed.