ABSTRACT
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
part I|74 pages
Poverty, Discrimination, and Violence: Women's Experiences and Responses
chapter 3|19 pages
Actions Speak Louder than Words
Indigenous Women and Gendered Resistance in the Wake of Acteal
part II|85 pages
Religious Change and Women's Empowerment
part III|64 pages
Women Organizing for Social Change
chapter 18|12 pages
J'pas Joloviletik-Jolom Mayaetik-K'inal Antzetik
An Organizational Experience of Indigenous and Mestiza Women
chapter 20|8 pages
Learning Everything I Can about Freedom
Testimony of a Social Worker and Popular Educator
