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

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Автор: David Jr. Carey
Название: I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944
ISBN: 9781477302101
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

История Америк

Феминизм и его теория

Гендерные исследования: женщины

Преступность и криминология

Международное публичное право

Международное право в области прав человека

ISBN-10: 1477302107
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 363
Вес: 0.74 кг.
Дата издания: 01.11.2014
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 31 b&w photos, 2 b&w maps, 4 tables
Размер: 229 x 152 x 32
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Подзаголовок: Maya women, dictators, and crime in guatemala, 1898-1944
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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.

Winner, Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2015

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 grievances and an important tool for advancing their agendas. As both a mirror and an instrument of the state, the judicial system simultaneously illuminates the limits of state rule and the state’s ability to co-opt Guatemalans by hearing their voices in court.

Against the backdrop of two of Latin America’s most oppressive regimes—the dictatorships of Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898–1920) and General Jorge Ubico (1931–1944)—David Carey Jr. explores the ways in which indigenous people, women, and the poor used Guatemala’s legal system to manipulate the boundaries between legality and criminality. Using court records that are surprisingly rich in Maya women’s voices, he analyzes how bootleggers, cross-dressers, and other litigants crafted their narratives to defend their human rights. Revealing how nuances of power, gender, ethnicity, class, and morality were constructed and contested, this history of crime and criminality demonstrates how Maya men and women attempted to improve their socioeconomic positions and to press for their rights with strategies that ranged from the pursuit of illicit activities to the deployment of the legal system.

Дополнительное описание:

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: I

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