Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope

by Eber,Christine; Eber,Christine

• ISBN13: 9780415945578
• ISBN10: 0415945577
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-08-22
• Publisher: Routledge

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword JUNE NASH	ix
Introduction CHRISTINE KOVIC AND CHRISTINE EBER	1	(30)
Box 1: The Revolutionary Women's Law	23	(8)
I Poverty, Discrimination, and Violence: Women's Experiences and Responses
1 Overview
CHRISTINE KOVIL AND CHRISTINE EBER	31	(6)
Box 2: Socio-economic Conditions in Chiapas	36
2 Juana's Story
GRACIELA FREYERMUTH ENCISO	37	(10)
3 Actions Speak Louder than Words: Indigenous Women and Gendered Resistance in the Wake of Acteal	47	(20)
SHANNON SPEED
4 The Birth of Guadalupe	67	(4)
5 Indigenous Children: We Are Not to Blame	71	(10)
RUPERTA BAUTISTA VÁZQUEZ
6 "I Made Myself from Nothing": Women and Sex Work in Urban Chiapas	81	(18)
PATTY KELLY
7 Letter from a Peace Camp
HEATHER SINCLAIR	99	(8)
II Religious Change and Women's Empowerment
8 Overview
CHRISTINE KOVIC AND CHRISTINE EBER	107	(6)
9 Living Their Faith in Troubled Times: Two Catholic Women	113	(18)
CHRISTINE EBER
10 Demanding Their Dignity as Daughters of God: Catholic Women and Human Rights	131	(16)
CHRISTINE KOVIL
11 Today, the Women	147	(2)
12 Irene: A Catholic Woman in Oxchuc	149	(6)
PILAR GIL TÉBAR
13 Prayer for Carly	155	(6)
MARGARITA PÉREZ PÉREZ
14 Protestantism and Family Dynamics in an Indigenous Community of Highland Chiapas	161	(10)
GABRIELA PATRICIA ROBLEDO HERNÁNDEZ
15 Women's Empowerment through Religious Change in Tenejapa	171	(22)
SUSANNA ROSTAS
III Women Organizing for Social Change
16 Overview	193	(4)
CHRISTINE KOVIL AND CHRISTINE EBER
17 Contemporary Women's Movements in Chiapas	197	(10)
INÉS CASTRO APREZA
18 J'pas Joloviletik-Jolom Mayaetik-K'inal Antzetik: An Organizational Experience of Indigenous and Mestiza Women	207	(12)
YOLANDA CASTRO APREZA
19 Compañeras	219	(2)
20 Learning Everything I Can about Freedom: Testimony of a Social Worker and Popular Educator	221	(8)
DIANA DAMIÁN PALENCIA
21 Song for International Women's Day, March 8, 1997	229	(2)
FLOR DE MARGARITA PÉREZ PÉREZ
22 Hacia la Autonomía: Zapatiste Women Developing a New World	231	(22)
MELISSA M. FORBIS
Bibliography	253	(12)
Contributors	265	(4)
Glossary	269	(4)
Index	273