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...Karen Kampwirth Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies . By Htun Mala . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 . Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. xi , 219 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Paper , $22.00...

.... Prior to that time the Catholic Church approved only a limited form of separation. The work under review studies the practice of that form of “divorce” in the first half of the nineteenth century. An introductory analysis of the social meaning of the divorce cases precedes excerpts of nine legal suits...

.... But for scholars interested in the history of family, sexuality, and especially divorce in Latin America, this book has much to offer. Intimidad, divorcio y nueva moral continues to chart the liberal challenges to what Barrán calls the “puritanical” views of the old Catholic patriarchal model during the late...

...Carmen Diana Deere; Magdalena León One of the ironies about “the great debate” is that although the issue of divorce had a lot to do with the position of women within the family and their presumed needs and aspirations, women’s role in this debate has largely been invisible. 42 What few...

... differences, the two most controversial issues she emphasizes are divorce and suffrage. Cool relations between church and state and the liberal reformers in Uruguay led to an early granting of divorce (1907) and suffrage (1938). Argentina’s influx of immigrants brought European influence, but not until Juan...

... looks at how Mexican women in Texas and Mexico used American divorce laws to protect family property, to remove unwanted, dissolute, or abusive husbands, and to establish a modicum of autonomy. Moreover, divorce proceedings without church oversight were unavailable in Mexico through the Porfiriato...

... recognized as Mexico’s leading revolutionary laboratory of the teens and twenties, in no small part due to reforms aimed at uplifting women: divorce, limited suffrage, expanded opportunities for education, and even a feminist congress. Although Yucatán’s women’s movement has been the object of several...

... in chapter 3. Here and in subsequent chapters, van Deusen gives us intriguing archival glimpses into the meanings of divorce for women of all kinds, from slaves to elites, during the period. Despite the considerable stigma and difficulty of divorce, women from every kind of background “requested divorces...

... This fascinating book presents the work of nine social historians who seek to reconstruct the elusive and highly personal private lives of colonial Latin Americans. The essays analyze a range of issues from sexuality, marriage, divorce, and illegitimacy to sexual witchcraft, conceptions of sin, and confession...

... of the bumpy and irregular push for the incorporation of subaltern groups into the nation-state. Her revealing section on divorce, the first systematic treatment of the institution from the perspective of women that I am aware of, is a good example of her treatment of the complex forces at work...

... apparent that other Latin countries placed women in depósito or at least used this same term to describe female confinement. For instance, María Beatriz Nizza Da Silva notes that women were placed in depósito in colonial Brazil during their divorce proceedings. Lucia Ferrante notes in her study...

... by achieving male support with an emphasis on the importance of the mother and the family rather than the independent individual. The early legalization of divorce based on the separation of church and state may have been influenced by the United States, but the achievement of equal rights regardless of sex...

... on foreign laws which are inconsistent with Argentine public policy (Chapter 3). Argentine courts have refused to enforce contractual obligations with nationals of other countries if inconsistent with Argentine internal law (Chapter 4). Divorce as constituting the dissolution of the marriage bond...

..., the importation of gender notions challenging “honor and shame” (public courtship, flirting, divorce, and female emancipation), marriage strategies (especially celibacy) and mobility, and, most significant, “law and political reforms.” Where law serves as evidence for assessing change, Borges fills in big...

... and the divorce, which she never acknowledged, loomed large in Ashwood’s life. Tony Martin’s biography of Ashwood, the most recent volume in what the author calls the New Marcus Garvey Library, centers on her relationship with Garvey and its aftermath. Amy Ashwood was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, in 1895...

... formation in Mexico City. Stephanie Smith’s review of official and popular attitudes toward divorce in the radical state of Yucatán nicely contextualizes the debates that occurred there and demonstrates the international implications of the state’s liberal divorce laws, which attracted great numbers...

... to divorce, communism, free love, sexually educated (and hence sexually bankrupt) youth, and general moral dissolution. His focus on youth and sexuality surfaced most clearly in denunciations of Catholic schools and churches as places where deceptively innocent-looking nuns and priests initiated the scions...

... unique historical context. In the first half of the twentieth century, Spanish women for the most part advocated social feminism, that is, the struggle for civil and social rights. They organized around concrete goals like the right to divorce, equal education, and extra domestic jobs rather than...

... opportunities for women. Unlike Alvarado, who showed little interest in mobilizing female workers or campesinas, Elvia and Felipe Carrillo encouraged lower-class women to organize Ligas Feministas, whose membership reached fifty-five thousand by 1923. Despite Carrillo’s egalitarianism, his divorce law still...

... resigned the Ministry.” (Riva-Agüero had resigned because the congress passed a law authorizing divorce for non-Peruvians.) “To what faith do you belong, Sir,” asked Riva-Agüero. “I am not a Catholic, but I respect anyone who acts according to his principles.” (Again a bad move.) “Tell me, Mr. McNicoll...