Women Of Chiapas

Author : Christine Eber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135394083
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Chiapas written by Christine Eber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christine Eber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135394156
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Chiapas written by Christine Eber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Shannon Speed
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292749627
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissident Women written by Shannon Speed and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yielding pivotal new perspectives on the indigenous women of Mexico, Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas presents a diverse collection of voices exploring the human rights and gender issues that gained international attention after the first public appearance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in 1994. Drawing from studies on topics ranging from the daily life of Zapatista women to the effect of transnational indigenous women in tipping geopolitical scales, the contributors explore both the personal and global implications of indigenous women's activism. The Zapatista movement and the Women's Revolutionary Law, a charter that came to have tremendous symbolic importance for thousands of indigenous women, created the potential for renegotiating gender roles in Zapatista communities. Drawing on the original research of scholars with long-term field experience in a range of Mayan communities in Chiapas and featuring several key documents written by indigenous women articulating their vision, Dissident Women brings fresh insight to the revolutionary crossroads at which Chiapas stands—and to the worldwide implications of this economic and political microcosm.

Author : Christine Eber
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742487
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico written by Christine Eber and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico now offers that perspective in one woman's own words. Anthropologist Christine Eber met "Antonia" in 1986 and has followed her life's journey ever since. In this book, they recount Antonia's life story and also reflect on challenges and rewards they have experienced in working together, offering insight into the role of friendship in anthropological research, as well as into the transnational movement of solidarity with the indigenous people of Chiapas that began with the Zapatista uprising. Antonia was born in 1962 in San Pedro Chenalhó, a Tzotzil-Maya township in highland Chiapas. Her story begins with memories of childhood and progresses to young adulthood, when Antonia began working with women in her community to form weaving cooperatives while also becoming involved in the Word of God, the progressive Catholic movement known elsewhere as Liberation Theology. In 1994, as a wife and mother of six children, she joined a support base for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Recounting her experiences in these three interwoven movements, Antonia offers a vivid and nuanced picture of working for social justice while trying to remain true to her people's traditions.

Author : Guiomar Rovira
Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Maize written by Guiomar Rovira and published by Latin America Bureau (Lab). This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Mexican state of Chiapas women still marry at 13, and are often sold for a few bottles of liquor or a cow. In this volume the women of Chiapas tell of their hopes and their struggles, and their fight for a more democratic and humane way of life.

Author : Hilary Klein
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609805887
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compañeras written by Hilary Klein and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compañeras is the untold story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades. Gathered here are the stories of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who became guerilla insurgents and political leaders, educators and healers—who worked collectively to construct a new society of dignity and justice. Compañeras shows us how, after centuries of oppression, a few voices of dissent became a force of thousands, how a woman once confined to her kitchen rose to conduct peace negotiations with the Mexican government, and how hundreds of women overcame ingrained hardships to strengthen their communities from within.

Author : Yolanda Castro Apreza
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806160942
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weaving Chiapas written by Yolanda Castro Apreza and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a rapidly changing world. Originally published in Spanish in 2007, this book captures firsthand the voices of these Maya artisans, whose experiences, including the challenges of living in a highly patriarchal culture, often escape the attention of mainstream scholarship. Based on interviews conducted with members of the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative, the accounts gathered in this volume provide an intimate view of women’s life in the Chiapas highlands, known locally as Los Altos. We learn about their experiences of childhood, marriage, and childbirth; about subsistence farming and food traditions; and about the particular styles of clothing and even hairstyles that vary from community to community. Restricted by custom from engaging in public occupations, Los Altos women are responsible for managing their households and caring for domestic animals. But many of them long for broader opportunities, and the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative represents a bold effort by its members to assume control over and build a wider market for their own work. This English-language edition features color photographs—published here for the first time—depicting many of the individual women and their stunning textiles. A new preface, chapter introductions, and a scholarly afterword frame the women’s narratives and place their accounts within cultural and historical context.

Author : Gayle Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Woman Is a World written by Gayle Walker and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the remote mountains and tropical forests of southern Mexico, the elder women of Chiapas have witnessed tumultuous change during their lifetimes, which in some cases spanned the entire twentieth century. Through hard experience, these women have gained unique perspectives on the transformations that modernity has brought to their traditional way of life. Reflecting on this rich store of wisdom, artists Gayle Walker and Kiki Suárez began interviewing and photographing Chiapanec women between the ages of 60 and 108. In this book, they present the life stories of twenty-eight women, who speak for the silent members of a divided society - well-to-do, urban ladinas of European descent; mixed race, low-income mestizas; and indigenous Maya from the highlands and Lacandon rainforest. As the women tell their stories, they shed light on major historical events as well as the personal dramas of daily life. For some, the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic are still painfully vivid. Others focus on recent social upheavals, such as the 1994 Zapatista Uprising. Women whose families had more resources fondly recall their high school days, while poorer women tell tragic stories of deprivation, hunger, and family violence. Particularly thought-provoking are the women's attitudes toward marriage, work, religion, and their own mortality. Considering the limited opportunities these women faced, Walker and Suárez sum up the significant theme of these interviews by observing that the women of Chiapas "remind us that if we are flexible, creative, and courageous, we have many more possibilities than we think we have."

Author : Teresa Ortiz
Publisher : Epica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Again a World Without Us written by Teresa Ortiz and published by Epica. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo
Publisher : IWGIA
ISBN 13 : 9788790730437
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Word written by Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 22nd 1997, 32 women and 13 men in the los Naranjos encampment for displaced people in the community of Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico, were assassinated by heavily armed men. The voices and feelings of women that were lost among the numbers, cronologies, and political analyses of this mass of information are rescued in this book.