This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published in Latin American Perspectives-a theoretical and scholarly journal focused on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The reader is organized into them...

The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the uprising. This compelling volume examines in detail these local and regional histories of power and resistance, powerfully bolstered by gripping and heartrending details of oppression and opposit...

Eine Einführung in elementare Bibeltexte: subjektorientiert – biblisch-theologisch – didaktisch erschlossen. Verfasst von den führenden evangelischen und katholischen Religionspädagog:innen des deutschen Sprachraums. Elementare Bibeltexte bilden den Inhalt des zweiten, komplett neu erarbeiteten Bandes der bewährten Reihe "Theologie für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer". Die Autor:innen erschließen anhand von 37 Begriffen zentrale Inhalte der Bücher des Alten und Neuen Testaments. Die Auswahl orienti...

Sous la coordination de Marie-Hélène Broihanne, Gunther Capelle-Blancard et Antoine Rebérioux, le numéro 157 de la Revue d’économie financière plonge au cœur des enjeux de genre dans le secteur financier. Un secteur où, malgré des avancées significatives, les femmes restent sous-représentées, notamment aux postes de direction et dans la gestion d’actifs. Alors que les inégalités persistent, la question se pose : comment transformer cette réalité pour un secteur plus inclusif et pl...

Magdalena, su mejor amiga Lucia, y su hija Veronica, tres mujeres zapatistas, manejan la pobreza y las expectativas sociales en los Altos de Chiapas. Un tributo al poder de las mujeres y la comunidad.Magdalena, her best friend Lucia, and her daughter Veronica, three Zapatista women, navigate poverty and societal expectations in their small Chiapas town. A tribute to the power of women and community.Magdalena y su hija Veronica estan unidas ...

Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico now offers that perspective in one woman's own words. Anthropologist Christine Eber met "Antonia" in 1986 and has followed her life's journey ever since. In this book, they recount Antonia's life ...

Healing roles and rituals involving alcohol are a major source of power and identity for women and men in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, where abstention from alcohol can bring a loss of meaningful roles and of a sense of community. Yet, as in other parts of the world, alcohol use sometimes leads to abuse, whose effects must then be combated by individuals and the community.In this pioneering ethnography, Christine Eber looks at women and drinking in the community of San Pedro Chenalhó ...

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.