Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. From Childhood to Motherhood -- Ch. 3. Working-Class Housewife -- Ch. 4. First Political Experience -- Ch. 5. CO-MADRES Activist -- Ch. 6. Personal and Political Struggles -- Ch. 7. Increased Repression and the Death of Silvia Olan and Monsenor Romero -- Ch. 8. Birth and Death: Unexpected Pregnancy and the Assassination of Rafael -- Ch. 9. Another Bombing and more Disappearances -- Ch. 10. Living and Working Abroad: Mexico and Europe -- Ch. 11. Torture and Detention -- Ch. 12. The Women's Prison -- Ch. 13. Living in the United States -- Ch. 14. The Peace Accords -- Ch. 15. It's a Hard Life: Women in El Salvador's Economic History -- Ch. 16. Maria's Companeras: Women's Grassroots Organizing in El Salvador, 1970-1991 -- Ch. 17. The Politics and Practice of Testimonial Literature