From Grandmother to Granddaughter: Salvadoran Women’s Stories

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The life histories and testimonies of nine Salvadoran women from different generations shape this intimate portrayal of recent El Salvador. The authors interviewed a grandmother, mother, and granddaughter from three Salvadoran families: Los angeles Familia Nuñez, members of the higher class; Los angeles Familia Rivas, from El Salvador’s growing middle class; and Los angeles Familia García, from the campo, the Salvadoran peasantry. The voices we hear convey a deep sense of the sector of Salvadoran women and how life is lived in that Central American country nowadays.

Each and every woman tells her own life story, and interspersed with recollections of childhood, marriage, and childrearing are revealing accounts of El Salvador’s turbulent political past and present. Reflected within the stories are the vast changes in educational and occupational opportunities for women and the shifts in male-female relationships. Class differences are still a fundamental a part of Salvadoran life, but changes are occurring on this area as well.

From Grandmother to Granddaughter is a vivid and authentic portrait of nowadays’s El Salvador that convincingly illustrates how individual lives can reflect the bigger changes within a society.
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