The morning after: sexual politics at the end of the the Cold War.

The Progressive | September 1, 1993| | Copyright

Now that the war is over, Esmeralda has had her IUD removed." What? I read the sentence again. It was from a 1992 article in Ms. entitled "Salvadoran Women Plan for Peace."

Esmeralda is a Salvadoran woman who spent many of her young adult years as a guerrilla in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the FMLN. She pounded out tortillas and washed her boyfriend's clothes; she also wielded a gun. Now it was the "morning after." Not of an illicit affair, but of a Cold War-fueled civil war. Her country's strife had been brought to an end by a peace accord signed ...

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