The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador

Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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Cambridge University Press
18 September 2025

History of the Americas; Colonialism & imperialism; Feminism & feminist theory; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Revolutionary groups & movements

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.

By: Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009200103
ISBN 10: 1009200100
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 18 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for 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 and broadcaster of Radio Venceremos '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. Sierra 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, which combined a willingness to envision the end to patriarchy with 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