Dissident women: gender and cultural politics in Chiapas

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Preface: Indigenous Organizing and the EZLN in the Context of Neoliberalism in Mexico (Lynn M. Stephen, Shannon Speed, and R. Aida Hernandez Castillo) Acknowledgments Section One: Key Women's Documents Women's Revolutionary Law Women's Rights in Our Traditions and Customs Comandanta Esther: Speech before the Mexican Congress International Day of the Rebel Woman Introduction (R. Aida Hernandez Castillo, Lynn M. Stephen, and Shannon Speed) Section Two: Indigenous Women's Organizing in Chiapas and Mexico: Historical Trajectories, Border Crossings Chapter 1. Between Feminist Ethnocentricity and Ethnic Essentialism: The Zapatistas' Demands and the National Indigenous Women's Movement (R. Aida Hernandez Castillo) Chapter 2. Indigenous Women and Zapatismo: New Horizons of Visibility (Margara Millan Moncayo) Chapter 3. Gender and Stereotypes in the Social Movements of Chiapas (Sonia Toledo Tello and Anna Maria Garza Caligaris) Chapter 4. Weaving in the Spaces: Indigenous Women's Organizing and the Politics of Scale in Mexico (Maylei Blackwell) Section Three: Rights and Gender in Ethnographic Context Chapter 5. Indigenous Women's Activism in Oaxaca and Chiapas (Lynn M. Stephen) Chapter 6. Autonomy and a Handful of Herbs: Contesting Gender and Ethnic Identities through Healing (Melissa M. Forbis) Chapter 7. Rights at the Intersection: Gender and Ethnicity in Neoliberal Mexico (Shannon Speed) Chapter 8. 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) References Index