Shannon Speed is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is coeditor of "Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas" (2006).

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
1983

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1975

Speech before the Mexican
1955

International Day of the Rebel Woman
1971

INDIGENOUS WOMENS ORGANIZING
1902

National Indigenous Womens Movement R AIDA
1910

Gender and Stereotypes in the Social
1962

Indigenous
1983

Indigenous Womens Activism in Oaxaca
1990

Gender
1944

We Can No Longer Be Like Hens with
1969

REFERENCES
1990

INDEX

Yielding pivotal new perspectives on the indigenous women of Mexico, Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas presents a diverse collection of voices exploring the human rights and gender issues that gained international attention after the first public appearance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in 1994.
Drawing from studies on topics ranging from the daily life of Zapatista women to the effect of transnational indigenous women in tipping geopolitical scales, the contributors explore both the personal and global implications of indigenous women's activism. The Zapatista movement and the Women's Revolutionary Law, a charter that came to have tremendous symbolic importance for thousands of indigenous women, created the potential for renegotiating gender roles in Zapatista communities. Drawing on the original research of scholars with long-term field experience in a range of Mayan communities in Chiapas and featuring several key documents written by indigenous women articulating their vision, Dissident Women brings fresh insight to the revolutionary crossroads at which Chiapas stands—and to the worldwide implications of this economic and political microcosm.