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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454206603321

Titolo

Dissident women [[electronic resource] ] : gender and cultural politics in Chiapas / / edited by Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2006

ISBN

0-292-79433-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; ; bk. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

SpeedShannon <1964->

Hernández CastilloRosalva Aída

StephenLynn

Disciplina

305.800972/75

Soggetti

Maya women - Mexico - Chiapas - Social conditions

Maya women - Mexico - Chiapas - Politics and government

Electronic books.

Chiapas (Mexico) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Between feminist ethnocentricity and ethnic essentialism : the Zapatistas' demands and the national indigenous women's movement / R. Aída Hernandez Castillo -- Indigenous women and Zapatismo : new horizons of visibility / Margara Millan Moncayo -- Gender and stereotypes in the social movements of Chiapas / Sonia Toledo Tello and Anna María Garza Caligaris -- Weaving in the spaces: indigenous women's organizing and the politics of scale in Mexico / Maylei Blackwell -- Indigenous women's activism in Oaxaca and Chiapas / Lynn M. Stephen -- Autonomy and a handful of herbs : contesting gender and ethnic identities through healing / Melissa M. Forbis -- Rights at the intersection : gender and ethnicity in neoliberal Mexico / Shannon Speed -- "We can no longer be like hens with our heads bowed, we must raise our heads and look ahead" : a consideration of the daily life of Zapatista women / Violeta Zylberberg Panebianco.