UID:
almafu_9959238056202883
Format:
1 online resource (297 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-39415-6
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0-415-94556-9
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0-203-95481-5
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1-135-39408-3
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Box 1: The Revolutionary Women's Law; I Poverty, Discrimination, and Violence: Women's Experiences and Responses; 1 Overview; Box 2: Socio-economic Conditions in Chiapas; 2 Juana's Story; 3 Actions Speak Louder than Words: Indigenous Women and Gendered Resistance in the Wake of Acteal; 4 The Birth of Guadalupe; 5 Indigenous Children: We Are Not to Blame; 6 "I Made Myself from Nothing"": Women and Sex Work in Urban Chiapas; 7 Letter from a Peace Camp
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II Religious Change and Women's Empowerment8 Overview; 9 Living Their Faith in Troubled Times: Two Catholic Women; 10 Demanding Their Dignity as Daughters of God: Catholic Women and Human Rights; 11 Today, the Women; 12 Irene: A Catholic Woman in Oxchuc; 13 Prayer for Carly; 14 Protestantism and Family Dynamics in an Indigenous Community of Highland Chiapas; 15 Women's Empowerment through Religious Change in Tenejapa; III Women Organizing for Social Change; 16 Overview; 17 Contemporary Women's Movements in Chiapas
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18 J'pas Joloviletik- Jolom Mayaetik- K'inal Antzetik: An Organizational Experience of Indigenous and Mestiza Women19 Compañeras; 20 Learning Everything I Can about Freedom: Testimony of a Social Worker and Popular Educator; 21 Song for International Women's Day, March 8, 1997; 22 Hacía la Autonomía: Zapatista Women Developing a New World; Bibliography; Contributors; Glossary; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-94557-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-04988-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203954812
