Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Decoding gender : law and practice in contemporary Mexico / edited by Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, Ann Varley ; foreword by Maxine Molyneux.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
©2007

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index.
Contents 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Mexico.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Mexico.
Sex and law -- Mexico.
Sex and law.
Indians of Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of Mexico -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Baitenmann, Helga.
Chenaut, Victoria.
Varley, Ann, 1958-
Other Form: Print version: Decoding gender. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006031255 (OCoLC)71552327
ISBN 9780813541594 (electronic book)
081354159X (electronic book)
9780813540504 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
081354050X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780813540511 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0813540518 (paperback ; alkaline paper)