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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.
List of contents
Foreword, June Nash Introduction, Christine Kovic and Christine Eber I. Poverty, Discrimination, and Violence: Women's Experiences and Responses 1. Section Overview, Christine Eber and Christine Kovic 2. Juana's Story, Graciela Freyermuth 3. Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Indigenous Women and Gendered Resistance in the Wake of Acteal, Shannon Speed 4. Corrido: The Birth of Guadalupe 5. Indigenous Children: We're Not to Blame, Ruperta Bautista Vzquez 6. I Made Myself From Nothing: Women and Sex Work in Urban Chiapas, Patty Kelly 7. Letter From a Peace Camp, Heather Sinclair II. Religious Change and Women's Empowerment 8. Section Overview, Christine Kovic and Christine Eber 9. Living Their Faith in Troubled Times: Two Catholic Women, Christine Eber 10. Demanding Our Dignity as Daughters of God: Catholic Women and Human Rights, Christine Kovic 11. Song: Today, the Women 12. Irene, a Catholic Woman in Oxchuc, Pilar Gil Tébar 13. Prayer for Carly, Margarita Pérez 14. Protestantism and Family Dynamics in an Indigenous Community of Highland Chiapas, Gabriela Robledo 15. Women's Empowerment Through Religious Change in Tenejapa, Susanna Rostas III. Women Organizing for Social Change 16. Section Overview, Christine Kovic and Christine Eber 17. Contemporary Women's Movements in Chiapas, Inés Castro Apreza 18. J'Pasjoloviletik-Jolom Mayaetik-K'inal Antzetik: An Organizational Experience of Indigenous and Mestiza Women, Yolanda Castro 19. Song: Companeras 20. Learning Everything I Can About Freedom: Testimony of a Social Worker And Popular Educator, Diana Damian 21. Song For International Women's Day, March 8, 1997, Flor de Margarita Pérez Pérez 22. Hacia la Autonomia: Zapatista Women and the Development of a New World, Melissa Forbis
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Christine Eber, Christine Kovic
Summary
This book presents the concerns, visions and struggles on women in Chiapas, Mexico in the context of the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
