Tortillas, trauma and tears: gendering El Salvadoran women’s participation in the 1980–1992 civil war

Title: Tortillas, trauma and tears: gendering El Salvadoran women’s participation in the 1980–1992 civil war
Creator: Leslie, Helen
Relation: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 6, Issue 2, p. 3-17
Relation: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/jigs-index.html
Publisher: University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2001
Description: Throughout the centuries, armed conflict and the machinations of gender relations have been intimately entwined. In this paper the gendered impacts of armed conflict are discussed in relation to El Salvadoran women’s experiences of the 1980–1992 civil war. Drawn from the author’s fieldwork, testimonials are presented which highlight the contradictory nature of women’s experiences of conflict. It is argued that while the participation of large numbers of women in the Salvadoran civil war was almost unprecedented, this participation was generally undertaken in ways which entrenched oppressive sex role stereotypes in Salvadoran society and thus, in ways which acted to disempower, rather than empower Salvadoran women.
Subject: El Salvadoran women; 1980-1992 civil war; armed conflict; gender roles
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1046949
Identifier: uon:14715
Identifier: ISSN:1325-1848
Language: eng
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