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Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town
Healing roles and rituals involving alcohol are a major source of power and identity for women and men in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, where abstention from alcohol can bring a loss of meaningful roles and of a sense of community. Yet, as in other parts of the world, alcohol use sometimes leads to abuse, whose effects must then be combated by individuals and the community. In this pioneering ethnography, Christine Eber looks at women and drinking in the community of San Pedro Chenalhó to address the issues of women’s identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power. She explores various personal and social strategies women use to avoid problem drinking, including conversion to Protesta...
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Red Moon/red Lake
"Founded and edited by Anne Turyn, Top Stories was a prose periodical dedicated to the fiction writing of emerging women artists and writers in the late seventies. First printed in 1978, every contributor was designated a full issue to create and shape as their own, sometimes in collaboration with a visual artist. As a result, much of the writing is experimental and ranges completely in style of prose and topic, making for a diverse record of New York fiction at the time. The series featured numerous luminaries of the NYC downtown ethos, including Jenny Holzer, Lynne Tillman, Laurie Anderson, and Kathy Acker."--Printed Matter website
