Comments on: News: Radical Mayan Women http://www.yucatanliving.com/news/news-radical-mayan-women.htm Online magazine about living, working and traveling in Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Slim Jones http://www.yucatanliving.com/news/news-radical-mayan-women.htm/comment-page-1#comment-91245 Slim Jones Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:33:40 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/news/news-radical-mayan-women.htm#comment-91245 "Radical Maya Women" I hope they made a distinction between blancas, mestizas, and Maya women of the rural towns. Maya women and mestizas have always held substantial power. Do they work very hard? Yes, and so does everyone else in the family. Blancas and high-mestiza women may suffer because so many are housebound and have servants. Their reasons for pride have been stripped. “Radical Maya Women”

I hope they made a distinction between blancas, mestizas, and Maya women of the rural towns.

Maya women and mestizas have always held substantial power. Do they work very hard? Yes, and so does everyone else in the family.

Blancas and high-mestiza women may suffer because so many are housebound and have servants. Their reasons for pride have been stripped.

]]> By: jennifer http://www.yucatanliving.com/news/news-radical-mayan-women.htm/comment-page-1#comment-89787 jennifer Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:22:34 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/news/news-radical-mayan-women.htm#comment-89787 i believe you have confused the word "barter" with "bargain". what you describe is bargaining, not bartering. i believe you have confused the word “barter” with “bargain”. what you describe is bargaining, not bartering.

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