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1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index. |
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Love, sex, and gossip in legal cases from Namiquipa, Chihuahua / Ana M. Alonso -- Sins, abnormality, and rights : gender and sexuality in Mexican penal codes / Ivonne Szasz -- The realm outside the law : transvestite sex work in Xalapa, Veracruz / Rosío Córdova Plaza -- Women's land rights and indigenous autonomy in Chiapas : interlegality and the gendered dynamics of national and alternative popular legal systems / Lynn Stephen -- Indigenous women, law, and custom : gender ideologies in the practice of justice / María Teresa Sierra -- Indigenous women and the law : prison as a gendered experience / Victoria Chenaut -- Domesticating the law / Ann Varley -- Conflictive marriage and separation in a rural municipality in central Mexico, 1970-2000 / Soledad González Montes -- The archaeology of gender in the new agrarian court rulings / Helga Baitenmann -- Law and the politics of abortion / Adriana Ortiz-Ortega -- Married women's property rights in Mexico : a comparative Latin American perspective and research agenda / Carmen Diana Deere. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Summary |
Gender discrimination pervades nearly all legal institutions and practices in Latin America. The deeper question is how this shapes broader relations of power. By examining the relationship between law and gender as it manifests itself in the Mexican legal system, the thirteen essays in this volume show how law is produced by, but also perpetuates, unequal power relations. At the same time, however, authors show how law is often malleable and can provide spaces for negotiation and redress. The contributors (including political scientists, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Mexico.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Mexico. |
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Sex and law -- Mexico.
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Sex and law. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Indians of Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
Added Author |
Baitenmann, Helga.
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Chenaut, Victoria.
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Varley, Ann, 1958-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Decoding gender. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006031255 (OCoLC)71552327 |
ISBN |
9780813541594 (electronic book) |
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081354159X (electronic book) |
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9780813540504 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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081354050X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813540511 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0813540518 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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