Decoding gender : law and practice in contemporary Mexico /

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Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages)
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206746
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Other authors / contributors:Baitenmann, Helga.
Chenaut, Victoria.
Varley, Ann, 1958-
ISBN:9780813541594
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9780813540511
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index.
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Summary:Gender discrimination pervades nearly all legal institutions and practices in Latin America. The deeper question is how this shapes broader relations of power. By examining the relationship between law and gender as it manifests itself in the Mexican legal system, the thirteen essays in this volume show how law is produced by, but also perpetuates, unequal power relations. At the same time, however, authors show how law is often malleable and can provide spaces for negotiation and redress. The contributors (including political scientists, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists.
Other form:Print version: Decoding gender. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007
Standard no.:10.36019/9780813541594