Engendering Mayan history
Subtitle: Kaqchikel women as agents and conduits of the past, 1875-1970
By: David Carey, Jr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Cakchikel women -- Social conditions; Cakchikel women -- Ethnic identity; Cakchikel Indians -- History; Feminism -- Guatemala; Guatemala -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-321) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mayan women as history; title: Our star and a vision for us : a midwife's tale of social change and control, 1931-1966; title: And all the men could do was work in the fields : female perspectives on Guatemala's international agro-export economy, 1875-1965; title: From quotidian tasks to entrepreneurial opportunities : Mayan women and labor in highland Guatemala, 1890-1965; title: What is indio, if the nation is indigenous? : ethnic violence, gender, and nationalism in Guatemala, 1944 to 1967; title: Degrees of education : Mayan women and public schools, 1900-1965; title: Conclusion: (Re)positioning Mayan women in the past; title: Epilogue: Resurrecting reconciliation