{"title":"Galán Pa dxandí‘.”That would be great if it were true”: Zapotec women's comment on their role in society","authors":"Edaena Saynes‐Vázquez","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1996.9962557","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper discusses outsiders and insiders representations of Isthmus Zapotec women of Oaxaca, Mexico. Zapotec society has often been portrayed as a matriarchal one, ruled by sexually‐liberated women. Ethnographic and artistic materials written by Mexican and foreign writers sustain this image and misrepresent Zapotec women. This work tries to present Zapotec women's voices and compare how they conceive of themselves as opposed to how they have been portrayed.","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1996.9962557","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract This paper discusses outsiders and insiders representations of Isthmus Zapotec women of Oaxaca, Mexico. Zapotec society has often been portrayed as a matriarchal one, ruled by sexually‐liberated women. Ethnographic and artistic materials written by Mexican and foreign writers sustain this image and misrepresent Zapotec women. This work tries to present Zapotec women's voices and compare how they conceive of themselves as opposed to how they have been portrayed.
期刊介绍:
Identities explores the relationship of racial, ethnic and national identities and power hierarchies within national and global arenas. It examines the collective representations of social, political, economic and cultural boundaries as aspects of processes of domination, struggle and resistance, and it probes the unidentified and unarticulated class structures and gender relations that remain integral to both maintaining and challenging subordination. Identities responds to the paradox of our time: the growth of a global economy and transnational movements of populations produce or perpetuate distinctive cultural practices and differentiated identities.