Runaway Mothers and Daughters
Crimes of Abandonment in Twentieth-century Guatemala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Raymond Carey (University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 188-222 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0363199013482904 |
| OpenAlex | W2003334883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
As evidenced by laws addressing abandonment of the home and children, family preservation was paramount for early twentieth-century Latin American nation builders. The judicial record of abandonment cases from Guatemala demonstrates how men attempted to enforce their authority in the home and then enlisted state officials to uphold it when their wives or daughters defied them. Yet, abandonment litigation often liberated women. By condoning female flight as a response to domestic abuse, judges emancipated women with the very laws intended to corral them. The same gendered institutions that buttressed patriarchies also provided women with the tools to challenge men's perceived right to intimidate and beat women
Criminology · Latin Americans · Political science · Pregnancy · Sociology · Transgenerational epigenetics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |