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

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

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ISBN-13: 9780292748705
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/01/2013
Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series , #33
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 363
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

David Carey Jr. is Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine and author of Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875–1970, Ojer taq tzijob’äl kichin ri Kaqchikela’ Winaqi’ (A History of the Kaqchikel People), and Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
Foreword by Pablo Piccato
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Justice, Ethnicity, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Guatemala
Chapter 1. Dictators, Indígenas, and the Legal System: Intersections of Race and Crime
Chapter 2. "Rough and Thorny Terrain": Moonshine, Gender, and Ethnicity
Chapter 3. "Productive Activity": Female Vendors and Ladino Authorities in the Market
Chapter 4. Unnatural Mothers and Reproductive Crimes: Infanticide, Abortion, and Cross-Dressing
Chapter 5. Wives in Danger and Dangerous Women: Domestic and Female Violence
Chapter 6. Honorable Subjects: Public Insults, Family Feuds, and State Power
Conclusion: Emboldened and Constrained
Appendices
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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