CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. TABLES vii
4. FOREWORD ix
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
6. Introduction. Law and Gender in Mexico: Defining the Field 1
7. PART ONE. Discourses on Law and Sexuality
8. 1. Love, Sex, and Gossip in Legal Cases from Namiquipa, Chihuahua 43
9. 2. Sins, Abnormalities, and Rights: Gender and Sexuality in Mexican Penal Codes 59
10. 3. The Realm outside the Law: Transvestite Sex Work in Xalapa, Veracruz 75
11. PART TWO. Gender at the Intersection of Law and Custom
12. 4. Women’s Land Rights and Indigenous Autonomy in Chiapas: Interlegality and the Gendered Dynamics of National and Alternative Popular Legal Systems 93
13. 5. Indigenous Women, Law, and Custom: Gender Ideologies in the Practice of Justice 109
14. 6. Indigenous Women and the Law: Prison as a Gendered Experience 125
15. PART THREE. Legal Constructions of Marriage and the Family
16. 7. Domesticating the Law 145
17. 8. Conflictive Marriage and Separation in a Rural Municipality in Central Mexico, 1970–2000 162
18. 9. The Archaeology of Gender in the New Agrarian Court Rulings 180
19. PART FOUR. Legal Reform and the Politics of Gender
20. 10. Law and the Politics of Abortion 197
21. 11. Married Women’s Property Rights in Mexico: A Comparative Latin American Perspective and Research Agenda 213
22. Afterword. Thinking about Gender and Law in Mexico 231
23. Bibliography 239
24. Notes on Contributors 265
25. Index 271