Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ix
4. Preface: Indigenous Organizing and the Ezln in the Context of Neoliberalism in Mexico xi
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Section One: Key Women’s Documents
7. Women’s Revolutionary Law 1
8. Women’s Rights in Our Traditions and Customs 5
9. Comandanta Esther: Speech before the Mexican Congress 15
10. International Day of the Rebel Woman 28
11. Introduction 33
12. Section Two: Indigenous women’s organizing in Chiapas and Mexico: historical trajectories, border crossings
13. Chapter 1. Between Feminist Ethnocentricity and Ethnic Essentialism: The Zapatistas’ Demands and the National Indigenous Women’s Movement 57
14. Chapter 2. Indigenous Women and Zapatismo: New Horizons of Visibility 75
15. Chapter 3. Gender and Stereotypes in the Social Movements of Chiapas 97
16. Chapter 4. Weaving in the Spaces: Indigenous Women’s Organizing and the Politics of Scale in Mexico 115
17. Section Three: Rights and gender in ethnographic context
18. Chapter 5. Indigenous Women’s Activism in Oaxaca and Chiapas 157
19. Chapter 6. Autonomy and a Handful of Herbs: Contesting Gender and Ethnic Identities through Healing 176
20. Chapter 7. Rights at the Intersection: Gender and Ethnicity in Neoliberal Mexico 203
21. Chapter 8. “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 222
22. References 239
23. Index 263