Every Woman has a Voice: Recording the memories of Chiapas’ Grandames. A Review of Gayle Walker and Kiki Suárez's <em>Every Woman is a World: Interviews with Women of Chiapas </em> (Austin: U of Texas P, 2008

Authors

  • Niels Barmeyer Unión de Organizaciones de la Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca

Keywords:

Chiapas, Grandames

Abstract

The life-stories presented in Every Woman is a World: Interviews with Women of Chiapas feature a broad spectrum of women who have almost all grown up in Chiapas during the first half of the 20th century and who have lived through decisive historic moments such as the Mexican Revolution, the devastating pandemic of the Spanish Flu or the violent land redistribution under the rule of President Lázaro Cárdenas. Mostly, however, the book focuses on the very personal events that marked these women’s lives: the relationship with their parents, first love, marriage, childbirth and the loss of close kin.

Author Biography

Niels Barmeyer, Unión de Organizaciones de la Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca

Niels Barmeyer es un antropólogo que llegó a Chiapas en 1996 como activista en derechos humanos y escribió una tesis doctoral sobre las comunidades rebeldes autónomas. Su libro Developing Zapatista Autonomy fue publicado por University of New Mexico Press en 2009. Trabaja actualmente como asesor de una organización popular indígena en Oaxaca.

Published

2010-04-01

How to Cite

Barmeyer, N. (2010). Every Woman has a Voice: Recording the memories of Chiapas’ Grandames. A Review of Gayle Walker and Kiki Suárez’s <em>Every Woman is a World: Interviews with Women of Chiapas </em> (Austin: U of Texas P, 2008. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 7(3), 520–524. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/560

Issue

Section

Reviews: Gender