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I ask for justice

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This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America's most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights.

כותר I ask for justice : Maya women, dictators, and crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944 / David Carey Jr.
כותרים נוספים Maya women, dictators, and crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944
מהדורה First edition.
מוציא לאור Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press
שנה 2013
הערות Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר Introduction : justice, ethnicity, and gender in twentieth-century Guatemala -- Dictators, indígenas, and the legal system : intersections of race and crime -- "Rough and thorny terrain" : moonshine, gender, and ethnicity -- "Productive activity" : female vendors and Ladino authorities in the market -- Unnatural mothers and reproductive crimes : infanticide, abortion, and cross-dressing -- Wives in danger and dangerous women : domestic and female violence -- Honorable subjects : public insults, family feuds, and state power -- Conclusion : emboldened and constrained.
סדרה Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
Volume 33
היקף החומר 1 online resource (xxv, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps
שפה אנגלית
מספר מערכת 997007876829605171
תצוגת MARC

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