Division sexuelle du travail révolutionnaire : réflexions à partir de l’expérience salvadorienne (1970-1994)

Abstract

This article takes a fresh look at the participation of Salvadorien women in the revolutionary process and the war which shook the country between 1970 and 1994. Indeed, despite the encouraging discourse of the FMLN and the strong participation by women in the civil war of liberation, the existing social relations between the sexes have remained practically unchanged. To understand this result – common to a lot of other experiences of revolutionary fights – it is useful to call on the concept of the «sexual division of work». In observing from this angle the conditions of production of the revolutionary process, one detects a striking similarity with the sexual division of work which prevails in peacetime. This approach also explains the limits of analysis in terms of «liberation participation» or of «new identities», which do not convey the permanent nature of the oppression of women, despite revolutionary conflicts.

Keywords

• women
• El Salvador
• 1970-1994
• guerilla
• sexual division o work