Dissident Women

Shannon Speed is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.R. AÍda HernÁndez Castillo is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Center of Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City.Lynn M. Stephen is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon.

• Preface: Indigenous Organizing and the EZLN in the Context of Neoliberalism in Mexico (Lynn M. Stephen, Shannon Speed, and R. AÍda HernÁndez Castillo)AcknowledgmentsSection One: Key Women's Documents Women's Revolutionary LawWomen's Rights in Our Traditions and CustomsComandanta EsthÉr: Speech before the Mexican CongressInternational Day of the Rebel WomanIntroduction (R. AÍda HernÁndez 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. AÍda HernÁndez Castillo)Chapter 2. Indigenous Women and Zapatismo: New Horizons of Visibility (MÁrgara MillÁn Moncayo)Chapter 3. Gender and Stereotypes in the Social Movements of Chiapas (Sonia Toledo Tello and Anna MarÍa 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. "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)ReferencesIndex