Citation:
Baitenmann, Helga, Victoria Chenaut, and Ann Varley, eds. 2007. Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Authors: Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, Ann Varley
Annotation:
Table of Contents:
Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Law and Gender in Mexico: Defining the Field
Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, and Ann Varley
Part II: Discourses on Law and Sexuality
Chapter 2: Love, Sex, and Gossip in Legal Cases from Namiquipa, Chihuahua
Ana M. Alonso
Chapter 3: Sins, Abnormality, and Rights: Gender and Sexuality in the Mexican Penal Codes
Yvonne Szasz
Chapter 4: Gender, The Realm Outside the Law: Transvestite Sex Work in Xalapa, Veracruz
Rosío Córdova Plaza
Part III: Gender at the Intersection of Law and Custom
Chapter 5: Women's Land Rights and Indigenous Autonomy in Chiapas: Interlegality and the Gendered Dynamics of National and Alternative Popular Legal Systems
Lynn Stephen
Chapter 6: Indigenous Women, Law, and Custom: Gender Ideologies in the Practice of Justice
María Teresa Sierra
Chapter 7: Indigenous Women and the Law: Prison as a Gendered Experience
Victoria Chenaut
Part IV: Legal Constructions of Marriage and the Family
Chapter 8: Domesticating the Law
Ann Varley
Chapter 9: Conflictive Marriage and Separation in a Rural Municipality in Central Mexico, 1970-2000
Soledad Gonzalez Montes
Chapter 10: The Archaeology of Gender in the New Agrarian Court Rulings
Helga Baitenmann
Part V: Legal Reform and the Politics of Gender
Chapter 11: The Politics of Abortion
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega
Chapter 12: Married Women's Property Rights in Mexico: A Comparative Latin American Perspective and Research Agenda
Carmen Diana Deere
Part VI: Afterword Thinking about Gender and Law in Mexico
Jane F. Collier
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors Index
Topics: Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Indigenous, International Law, Justice, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights, Sexuality Regions: Americas, North America Countries: Mexico
Year: 2007
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