The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador

‘The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador is a must-read for understanding the recent history of Central America. This exhaustive investigation unties the knots of silences that have invisibilized the role of women in popular struggles.’ Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, Director of the Museum of the Word and Image, El Salvador‘Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra’s book is a beacon for despairing times. The revolutionary feminism of El Salvador emerges through careful ethnography with women fighters to restore their analysis alongside their lives. Becerra provides a sharp clarity of vision about the women and men in El Salvador whose courageous response survives the onslaught of US imperialism and the regimes it armed. Women’s revolutionary praxis, that combined a willingness to envision the end to patriarchy in their fight for socialism, provides a compass for our times.’ Elisabeth Armstrong, author of Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949

Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received the Outstanding Public History Award by the National Council of Public History in 2022. This is her first book.