WOMENS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN-RIGHTS - THE MERGING OF FEMININE AND FEMINISTINTERESTS AMONG EL SALVADORS MOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED (CO-MADRES)

Using a detailed ethnographic analysis of El Salvador's mother's of th e disappeared (CO-MADRES), I suggest that to look at multiple facets o f women's identities and the ways in which they both accommodate and r esist dominant ideologies of gender hierarchy and national security be st explains their political activity. I propose this approach as an al ternative to dichotomies such as feminine versus feminist movements. P ersonal narratives and testimonies document how the CO-MADRES have inc orporated issues of state repression, domestic inequality, and women's sexuality into a new discourse on human rights.