By Jane Bayes, Patricia Begné, Laura Gonzalez, Lois Harder, Mary Hawkesworth, Laura Macdonald (auth.)
This booklet examines the effect of globalization upon Canada, Mexico and the USA. It investigates adjustments within the constructions and practices of federalism, in public regulations and practices of governance and politics, and in fiscal livelihoods in all 3 international locations. It additionally offers comparisons of the results of globalization on women's lives.
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In Totonac culture as well, women not only worked at home but were also involved in defending the territory, fighting beside the men. The Spanish Conquest 1519–1521 During the Conquest, women’s conditions underwent enormous change. Apart from their various roles within indigenous communities, indigenous women became the lovers and servants of the Spanish. Without question the indigenous women experienced brutality and degradation during the Conquest, but they also seized opportunities to resist the Spanish, sometimes with recourse to arms.
In the 1960s and 1970s, students launched a series of protests against political corruption and economic policies that exacerbated inequalities, culminating in the 1968 killing of hundreds of student demonstrators by police and paramilitary forces in the Tlaltelolco section of Mexico City. During the 1980s, as mounting economic crises led to massive inflation and the devaluation of the peso, cracks began to open in the edifice of the ruling party, a party that had permitted only a very gradual and limited process of political liberalization up to this point.
They also served as spies, confidential agents, liaisons, couriers, arms and munition transporters, and as propagandists. As one commentator noted, all of these were secret activities: In the period 1910–1914, female teachers, journalists and nurses were proselytizers, writing, printing, and disseminating revolutionary propaganda, carrying it to the camps and distributing it among the rebels and the civilian population, transporting arms, correspondence, messages, moving throughout diverse parts of the country.
