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This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America's most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights.

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Maya women --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Crimes against --- Social conditions --- Mayan women --- Mayas --- Women, Maya --- Women --- Criminal justice, Administration of

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Maya women --- -Maya women --- -Women --- -Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Mayan women --- Mayas --- Women, Maya --- Women --- Ethnic identity --- Government relations --- Social conditions --- Identity --- Guatemala --- Social conditions. --- Theses --- Ethnic identity. --- Government relations. --- Identity. --- -Ethnic identity --- Human females

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While menopause is a universal fact of life, the physiological and psychological effects for women are not the same in all cultures. In this comparative and cross-cultural ethnographic study, Beyene examines the concept and experience of menopause among Greek and Mayan peasant women, uncovering some startling information. Available research and experience thus far suggests that non-Western, nonindustrialized women often do not have the same psychological or physiological reactions to menopause as Western, industrialized women do.By comparing the reproductive histories of one group of peasant women to another, the author makes it possible to isolate historical, cultural and environmental factors relating to variations or similarities in response to menopause. Her findings underscore the plasticity of the human aging experience, particularly among women. The book presents a biocultural view linking the experience of menopause to diet and fertility patterns, and provides new insights and hypotheses on the reproductive cycle and aging in women.

Menopause --- Menarche --- Maya women. --- Women --- Sex role --- Women peasants --- Nature and nurture. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Menarche. --- Menopause. --- Change of Life, Female --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Peasant women --- Peasants --- Rural women --- Mayan women --- Mayas --- Women, Maya --- Menstruation --- Puberty --- Change of life in women --- Female change of life --- Female climacteric --- Climacteric --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Women's Rights --- Social Science --- Political Science --- Women's rights --- Social science --- Political science