The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

462 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Figure 12.6 In the various economic crises that have gripped the region, women’s ingen ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 463 munities that have grown throughout Mesoamerica. Women who join Protestant church ...

Box 12.4 Mayan Women Ease the Economic Crisis Through Domestic Production Dominga Quej, an Achí Maya woman from Guatemala, and h ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 465 The social and economic effects of migration are mixed. Although remittances may ...

466 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES education and technical training and consequently greater access to jobs with ben- efi ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 467 The term femicide, like genocide, refers to systematic targeting of a specific po ...

468 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES women’s movement has made. This assertion is confirmed by reports of threats and attac ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 469 Box 12.5 Women’s Awakening to Gender Oppression “When I started working with the ...

470 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES pressuring governments to find the whereabouts of their loved ones and to punish the p ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 471 Box 12.6 How CONAVIGUA Came to Life. “Since I was fourteen I joined groups of you ...

472 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Box 12.7 Women’s Organizations in Contemporary Central America At the beginning of the ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 473 their societies. In the process, they are articulating unique forms of feminism t ...

474 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES The rights laid out in the document hold great symbolic importance for women in a vari ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 475 BURKHART, LOUISE1995 Mexica Women on the Home Front: Housework and Religion in Az ...

CHAPTER 13 THE INDIAN VOICE IN RECENT MESOAMERICAN LITERATURE THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY HIATUS With all of the extraordinary legacy ...

CHAPTER 13 THE INDIAN VOICE IN RECENT MESOAMERICAN LITERATURE 477 and afflictions (irrational, prelogical thought; sensuality; c ...

478 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Figure 13.1 “En las trincheras” [In the Trenches], fresco by Diego Rivera in the Minis ...

CHAPTER 13 THE INDIAN VOICE IN RECENT MESOAMERICAN LITERATURE 479 Figure 13.2 “Día de los muertos: la ofrenda” [Day of the Dead: ...

480 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Figure 13.3 “Orgía: noche de los ricos” [Orgy: Soiree of the Rich], fresco by Diego Ri ...

CHAPTER 13 THE INDIAN VOICE IN RECENT MESOAMERICAN LITERATURE 481 Other Central American Nations It is perhaps a reflection of t ...