...the Supreme Court did end up granting protection to hundreds of employers and landowners against workers and villagers between 1917 and 1934. ...the aim of this book is to explain how, why, and ...when the Supreme Court became an obstacle to the implementation of labour legislation and land reform. In response, the emergent organised labour movement brought considerable political pressure to bear on the Court, forcing it to expand the federal government's administrative discretion and thus allow the boards to render binding decisions. ...by the time that a federal labour law was enacted in 1931, a constitutional amendment had reduced the overall scope of the amparo. ...at least 1922 the Supreme Court actively supported the executive branch in its efforts to implement land reform.
INTRODUCTION HELGA BAITENMANN; VICTORIA CHENAUT; ANN VARLEY
Decoding Gender,
06/2007
Book Chapter
An extensive literature links the subjects of law and gender in Mexico, but only rarely is the connection itself the focus of attention. This book demonstrates that the linkage is complex and, at ...times, contradictory. Law (written corpus, legal procedures, and everyday practices) frequently reproduces and perpetuates exclusion, discrimination, and inequality on the basis of gender (idealized notions of femininity, masculinity, and heteronormativity), but also is often malleable and provides spaces for agency, negotiation, and redress. Moreover, law and gender cut across traditional social science dichotomies (state–popular, hegemonic–subaltern, and so forth) in interesting and complex ways. Thus, this
...it has become one of the most militant, enduring, and contradictory social movements in contemporary Mexico. ...in part the COCEI derived its strength by opposing the PRI's corruption and failed ...economic projects, as well as from splits between reformists and hard-liners within the official party. ...COCEI leaders continually negotiated with government officials, negotiations made possible by a common language shared by a generation of leaders who had personally experienced the I968 student movement. ...one of the strengths of this book is that in "decentering the regime;' Rubin challenges reified notions of the state by describing and focusing on a wide array of state actors; struggles between federal, state, and local government agencies; and contradictory state policies.
