The impact of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, on the lives of the Mayan women who joined as rebels to seek justice within their own culture.

Throughout history, women have fought like any man in many battles, side by side with their comrades, their separatists, their resistance brothers; they have defended their nations and worked in factories during the 2nd world war. Problem is, when the conflict is over and governments are restored or new ones created, women are pushed back into the kitchen to make the tea for the party members. In 1994 in Chiapas, Mexico, an uprising started where the women had made sure their own demands of justice and equality were a distinctive part in the struggle against the oppressor. The Zapatista National Liberation Army, formed mostly of indigenous men and women, started a war of self-defense for their identity, their land and a place in Mexican society. The women rebels also wanted justice within their own culture. At present, the Zapatistas live in their own self-governed communities where women are supposed to have an equal footing and hold posts of power. Problem is, part of the Zapatistas...