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Author Gorkin, Michael

Title From grandmother to granddaughter : Salvadoran women's stories / Michael Gorkin, Marta Pineda, and Gloria Leal
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : map
Contents Introduction / Michael Gorkin -- La Familia Nuñez. Niña Cecilia. Monica. Paulina -- La Familia García. María. Lupe. Niña Dolores -- La Familia Rivas. Dulce. Niña Julia. Sara -- Some afterwords
Summary Publisher description: The life histories and testimonies of nine Salvadoran women from different generations shape this intimate portrayal of contemporary El Salvador. The authors interviewed a grandmother, mother, and granddaughter from three Salvadoran families: La Familia Nunez, members of the upper class La Familia Rivas, from El Salvador's growing middle class and La Familia Garcia, from the campo, the Salvadoran peasantry. The voices we hear convey a deep sense of the world of Salvadoran women and how life is lived in that Central American country today. Each 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 in 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 part of Salvadoran life, but changes are occurring in this area as well. From Grandmother to Granddaughter is a vivid and authentic portrait of today's El Salvador that convincingly illustrates how individual lives can reflect the larger changes within a society
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Subject Women -- El Salvador -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Oral history.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Oral history
Women -- Social conditions
Femmes -- El Salvador -- Conditions sociales.
SUBJECT El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
Subject El Salvador
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pineda, Marta
Leal, Gloria
ISBN 9780520924505
0520924509
1299834426
9781299834422
0520211650
9780520211650