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Vol. 24, No. 2

Summer 2006



Editorial Staff  

In This Issue v


Articles

There's No Place Like Home: Homestead Exemption and Judicial Constructions of Family in Nineteenth-Century America
Alison D. Morantz 245

Female Sexual Potency in a Spanish Church Court, 1673–1735
Edward Behrend-Martínez 297

Seduction, Sexual Violence, and Marriage in New York City, 1886–1995
Stephen Robertson 331


Forum: The Promise and Perils of Family Law

Gloria's Story: Adulterous Concubinage and the Law in Twentieth-Century Guatemala
John W. Wertheimer 375


Comment

He Said, She Said: Gender, Reformism, and Family Conflict in Twentieth-Century Guatemala
Katherine E. Bliss 423

The Hidden Story—Violence and the Law in Guatemala
Pablo Piccato 433

Gloria's Story and Guatemala's Faith: Adulterous Concubinage, Law, and Religion
M. C. Mirow 441


Response

Popular Culture, Violence, and Religion in Gloria's Story
John W. Wertheimer 447


Book Reviews

Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft and Caste in Colonial Mexico—Laura A. Lewis
reviewed by Fernando Cervantes 455

Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050–1230—William E. Burgwinkle
reviewed by James A. Brundage 456

Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law: A History of Sovereignty, Status, and Self-Determination—P. G. McHugh
reviewed by Stuart Banner 458

Jurists Uprooted: German-Speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-Century Britain—Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann, editors
reviewed by Matthew W. Finkin 459

Murder on Trial, 1620–2002—Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers, editors
reviewed by Richard F. Hamm 462

Rule of Law: The Jurisprudence of Liberty in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries—John Phillip Reid
reviewed by Stephen B. Presser 463

The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829–1861—David P. Currie
reviewed by Yonatan Eyal 465

Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy—Armstead L. Robinson
reviewed by William L. Barney 466

Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920—Barbara Young Welke
reviewed by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz 468

Correspondence 470


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