I Ask for Justice : : Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944 /

I Ask for Justice : : Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944 / / David Carey.

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Given Guatemala’s record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their gr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Carey, David,
MitwirkendeR:
Piccato, Pablo,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (363 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction:
  • 1. Dictators, Indígenas, and the Legal System: Intersections of Race and Crime
  • 2. “Rough and Thorny Terrain”: Moonshine, Gender, and Ethnicity
  • 3. “Productive Activity”: Female Vendors and Ladino Authorities in the Market
  • 4. Unnatural Mothers and Reproductive Crimes: Infanticide, Abortion, and Cross-Dressing
  • 5. Wives in Danger and Dangerous Women: Domestic and Female Violence
  • 6. Honorable Subjects: Public Insults, Family Feuds, and State Power
  • Conclusion: Emboldened and Constrained
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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