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Author Carey, David, Jr., 1967- author.

Title I ask for justice : Maya women, dictators, and crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944 / by David Carey Jr
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. thirty-three
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 33.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
Maya women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
Maya women -- Crimes against -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
Maya women -- Guatemala -- Social conditions -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Maya women -- Social conditions
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
Guatemala
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292748699
0292748698