Mama's Boys

The other night I watched a documentary called Blossoms of Fire, about the city of Juchitán in Oaxaca, México. (Trailer here -- embedding is disabled, alas.) Juchitán has a reputation as a “matriarchy,” which speaks volumes about human confusion about categories. As far as I can tell, the Zapotec women of Juchitán have pretty unremarkable views about women and men – but they earn their own