Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador

By (author) Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra

ISBN13: 9781009200066

Imprint: Cambridge University Press

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 31/10/2025

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The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador tells the stories of rural and working-class women who fought to overthrow capitalism, patriarchy, and US imperialism. Covering five decades of struggle from 1965 to 2015, Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra weaves oral histories with understudied archival sources to illustrate how women developed a revolutionary theory and practice to win liberation. A multigenerational movement of women broke with patriarchal tradition. In the 1960s and 1970s, teachers and peasant women led militant class struggle against the landed oligarchy and military dictatorships. Women took up arms in the 1980s to survive US-backed state terror and built a revolution that bridged socialism and women's liberation. In the guerrilla territories, combatants and civilians politicized reproductive labor and created democratic institutions to meet the needs of the poor. Highlighting women's agency, Sierra Becerra challenges dominant narratives of revolutionary movements as monolithic, static, and dominated by urban men.
Introduction; 1. Patriarchal ruptures in the class struggle, 1965–1980; 2. Tortillas and menstruation: the everyday politics of armed struggle in the 1980s; 3. Building feminist popular power: the Association of Women of El Salvador, 1977–1987; 4. Survivors chart a path to heal historical trauma in the postwar era; Conclusion; List of interviewees; Bibliography.
  • History of the Americas
  • Revolutionary groups & movements
  • General (US: Trade)
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