Women's rights are human rights: The merging of feminine and feminist interests among El Salvador's mothers of the disappeared (CO-MADRES)

Using a detailed ethnographic analysis of El Salvador's mother's of the disappeared (CO-MADRES), I suggest that to look at multiple facets of women's identities and the ways in which they both accommodate and resist dominant ideologies of gender hierarchy and national security best explains their political activity. I propose this approach as an alternative to dichotomies such as feminine versus feminist movements. Personal narratives and testimonies document how the CO-MADRES have incorporated issues of state repression, domestic inequality, and women's sexuality into a new discourse on human rights.