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i Dedication ii Acknowledgements iii List of Figures ix Chapter 1 Understanding Rural Women’s Experiences: Context, Theory, and Methodological Approach 1 Socioeconomic and Institutional Context 3 Oaxaca, Mexico 3 San Pablo Huixtepec and the Universidad Tecnológica de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca 5 Thesis Structure and Theoretical Outline 12 Methodological Approach: Confianza and the Role of the Researcher 16 Participant Observation and Activist Anthropology 16 Interviews 18 Ethnographic Vignette and Memes 20 Data Analysis 21 Recruitment 21 Positionality 23 Chapter 2 Producing Space and Identity in Rural Oaxaca 25 Spatial Practices: Contrasting Kitchenspaces in Rural Oaxaca 31 Representations of Space: “Conocimiento Práctico que Transforma” 40 Spaces of Representation: “We All Came to Learn” 47 Chapter 3 The Profesionista’s Borderlands: Family Belonging, Conflict, and Transformation 54 Conocimiento Stages One Through Three: Seismic Shifts and Transformation 59 Conocimiento Stages Four and Five: “Remembering Where You’re From” 65 Stage Six: Choques and Family Conflict 71 Socioeconomic Mobility 73 Women’s Family and Community Role 75 Unfamiliarity with Student Life 80 The Seventh Stage of Conocimiento: Becoming a Profesionista in the Borderlands 82 Chapter 4 Building Community in the Thirdspace: CMujer as Convergence and Transformation 90 viii Creating CMujer: El Dream Team and Organization Forming 93 El Dream Team 95 Program Development 98 Participants 102 University Response to CMujer 103 CMujer as a Thirdspace: Collective Identity and Transformation in the Borderlands 104 Chapter 5 Conclusions and Recommendations: ¡Pa’delante, Mujeres! 117 Contradictions and Challenges: ¿Y Ahora Qué Hacemos? 119 Institutionalizing and Expanding CMujer 123 Final Reflections on Women’s Leadership 128 References 130 Appendices 144

Identity and Community in Rural Higher Education: Creating New Pathways to Women's Leadership in Oaxaca, Mexico