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He Said, She Said: Gender, Reformism, and Family Conflict in Twentieth-Century Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2010

Katherine E. Bliss
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He told the court that twenty-year-old Gloria abandoned their children and the home they had made together in Quetzaltenango in order to move to Guatemala City and live with another man.

She told the court that forty-two-year-old Julio had refused to divorce his wife and marry her as he had promised and that she had made sure the children were safe with their father before she departed for the city to pursue a better life for herself.

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Law and History Review , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , Summer 2006 , pp. 423 - 432
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Copyright © the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 2006

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