THE TRIPLE FEMALE OPPRESSION: “BE POOR” “BE A WOMAN” AND “BE INDIGENOUS” IN MEXICO

Abstract

The present work constitutes a theoretical reflection on the situation of indigenous women in Mexico, accompanied by an analysis from a gender perspective. Our particular interest was to describe the situation in which these women live and how, at the same time, they are organized to fight both inside and outside their communities to achieve better living conditions. Subordination and exclusion of indigenous women in many political, labor, social and cultural spaces is violence. Violence that manifests itself in many forms and degrees. However, women begin to question the uses and customs that keep them subordinated and that reinforce the patriarchal mandate historically and socially constructed and legitimized. Therefore, in this analysis we address the oppression of indigenous women from three dimensions: from their class, from their gender and from their ethnic condition. In other words, indigenous women are oppressed and excluded because they are poor, because they are women and because they are indigenous, problems that over the years are reproduced and transmitted from generation to generation as a characteristic of being a woman.