Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope

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ISBN: 9780415945561 | 0415945569
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/22/2003

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This book presents the concerns, visions and struggles of women in Chiapas, Mexico in the context of the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). The book is organized around three issues that have taken center state in women's recent struggles-structural violence and armed conflict; religion and empowerment and women's organizing. Also includes maps.

Acknowledgments

vii

Foreword

JUNE NASH

Introduction

(30)

CHRISTINE KOVIL AND CHRISTINE EBER

Box 1: The Revolutionary Women's Law

(8)

I Poverty, Discrimination, and Violence: Women's Experiences and Responses

1 Overview

(6)

CHRISTINE KOVIL AND CHRISTINE EBER

Box 2: Socio-economic Conditions in Chiapas

(1)

2 Juana's Story

(10)

GRACIELA FREYERMUTH ENCISO

3 Actions Speak Louder than Words: Indigenous Women and Gendered Resistance in the Wake of Acteal

(20)

SHANNON SPEED

4 The Birth of Guadalupe

(4)

5 Indigenous Children: We Are Not to Blame

(10)

RUPERTA BAUTISTA VÁZQUEZ

6 "I Made Myself from Nothing": Women and Sex Work in Urban Chiapas

(18)

PATTY KELLY

7 Letter from a Peace Camp

(8)

HEATHER SINCLAIR

II Religious Change and Women's Empowerment

8 Overview

107

(6)

CHRISTINE KOVIL AND CHRISTINE EBER

9 Living Their Faith in Troubled Times: Two Catholic Women

113

(18)

CHRISTINE EBER

10 Demanding Their Dignity as Daughters of God: Catholic Women and Human Rights

131

(16)

CHRISTINE KOVIC

11 Today, the Women

147

(2)

12 Irene: A Catholic Woman in Oxchuc

149

(6)

PILAR GIL TÉBAR

13 Prayer for Carly

155

(6)

MARGARITA PÉREZ PÉREZ

14 Protestantism and Family Dynamics in an Indigenous Community of Highland Chiapas

161

(10)

GABRIELA PATRICIA ROBLEDO HERNÁNDEZ

15 Women's Empowerment through Religious Change in Tenejapa

171

(22)

SUSANNA ROSTAS

III Women Organizing for Social Change

16 Overview

193

(4)

CHRISTINE KOVIL AND CHRISTINE EBER

17 Contemporary Women's Movements in Chiapas

197

(10)

INÉS CASTRO APREZA

18 J'pas Joloviletik-Jolom Mayaetik-K'inal Antzetik: An Organizational Experience of Indigenous and Mestiza Women

207

(12)

YOLANDA CASTRO APREZA

19 Compañeras

219

(2)

20 Learning Everything I Can about Freedom: Testimony of a Social Worker and Popular Educator

221

(8)

DIANA DAMIÁN PALENCIA

21 Song for International Women's Day, March 8, 1997

229

(2)

FLOR DE MARGARITA PÉREZ PÉREZ

22 Hacia la Autonomia: Zapatiste Women Developing a New World

231

(22)

MELISSA M. FORBIS

Bibliography

253

(12)

Contributors

265

(4)

Glossary

269

(4)

Index

273

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Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope

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