Dissident Women: Key Women Documents pp 3-28 and Introduction

During the section of Key Women Documents I was able to understand and relate to how powerful, stong and motivated these zapatista women really are. I was able to see and understand views and really admired their work as strong native females. I love the fact that they stated their rights, their beliefs and knew how to speak to open every one elses points of view. They were able to reflect on their rights as indigenous women and speak their minds instead of being socialized to fit that criteria of a traditional female and traditional female roles. They spoke about themselves tired of being the less dominant one in the household. Having to follow the males rule. Their mind setting was that they needed to do what was asked by them yet these females started to stand out and speak for what they believed. They knew that they were valuable females, wise and inteligent and knew that they could fullfil any task as well as the males, yet some males did not respect and think of females being less than that and till this day that scenario continues to play a role in our daily lives. This chapter also goes into discussing Article 4 of the Mexican constitution and its unfairness to the native population. How they are not respected by others if they travel, how their language is not respected and how their traditions such as homeade medicine is looked upon as something rare. They as women want those customs to change and to leave them in the past. On the speech for the Mexican Congress a strong Zapatista female made great points in explaning what they wanted. They did not come in a rude matter in fact they presented themselves as strong, educated, professional native women that believed that they could better the place that they call home. They want to be treated as equals, want to have the same equal services and so on to have an equally shared lifestyle.