| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index. |
| Contents |
Overview/ Chrsitine Kovice and Christine Eber -- Juana's story / Graciela Freyermuth Enciso -- Actions speak louder than words: Indigenous women and gendered resistance in the wake of Acteal / Shannon Speed -- the birth of guadalupe -- Indigenous children: we are not to blame / Ruperta Bautista Vazquez -- "I made myself from nothin": women and sex work in urban Chiapas / patty Kelly -- Letter from a Peace Camp / Heather sinclair -- Overview / Christine Kovic and Christine Eber -- Living their faith in troubled times: two Catholic women / Christine Eber -- Demanding their dignity as daughters of God: Catholic women and human rights / Christine Kovic -- Today, the women -- Irene: A catholic woman in Oschuc / Ilar gil Tebar -- Prayer for Carly / Margarita Perez Perez -- Protestantism and family dynamics in an indigenous community of highland Chiapas / Gabriela Patricia Robledo Hernandez -- Women's empowerment through religious change in Tenejapa / Susanna Rostas -- Overview / Christine Kovic and Christine Eber -- Contemporary women's movements in Chiapas / Ines Castro Apreza -- J'pas Joloviletick-Jolom Mayaetick-K'inal Antzetik: An organizational experience of indigenous and Mestiza women / Yoland Castro Apreza -- Companeras -- Learning everything I can about freedom: testimony of a social worker and popular educator / Diana Damian Palencia -- Song for international women's day, March 8, 1997 / Flor de Margarita Perez Perez --Hacia la Autonomia: Zapatista women developing a new work / Melissa M. Forbis. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Peasant Uprising (Chiapas, Mexico : 1994-) |
|
Maya women -- Mexico -- Chiapas.
|
|
Maya women. |
|
Mexico -- Chiapas. |
|
Women -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Social conditions.
|
|
Women. |
|
Social conditions. |
|
Chiapas (Mexico) -- History -- Peasant Uprising, 1994-
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Subject |
Women. |
|
Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Eber, Christine Engla.
|
|
Kovic, Christine Marie.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Women in Chiapas 0415945569 (DLC) 2003043127 (OCoLC)51755966 |
| ISBN |
9781135394080 (electronic book) |
|
1135394083 (electronic book) |
|
9780203954812 (e-book) |
|
0203954815 (e-book) |
|
0415945569 |
|
9780415945561 |
|
0415945577 |
|
9780415945578 |
|
