Female Bodies and Globalization: The Work of Indigenous Women Weavers in Zinacantán | November 10, 2020
by Eugenia Bayona Escat | November 10, 2020
ABSTRACT:
Women producers and sellers of textile crafts in Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, use one of the few resources they have to enter business: craft production as informal, invisible, and underpaid work. Taking the body as the axis of analysis, three distinct areas of transformation of indigenous women producers by tourism may be identified: the private and domestic body of craftswomen, the social and public body as an icon of ethnic difference, and the commodified body as an extension of the touristic object. The analysis shows that tourism and participation in the international market strengthen gender, class, and ethnic differences and contribute to the perpetuation of existing inequalities.
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Labels: Chiapas, Globalization, Mexico, November 2020 Issue, Women
