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Enforcing equality: court rulings, indigenous women, and political participation in Oaxaca, Mexico

Within the last decade, Mexico´s federal electoral courts have taken unprecedented steps to promote affirmative action in favor of women´s political participation. At the federal, state, and municipal levels, this has largely meant rulings that support legislation on gender-based quotas for public posts.  A stumbling block to this affirmative action initiative has been the predominately indigenous municipalities that hold local elections through tradition and custom instead of universal suffrage and secret ballot. Legally recognized as part of indigenous people´s collective right to self-determination, election through custom and tradition has been difficult to fit into existing juridical logics of gender equality.  In the past three years, however, a growing number of electoral conflicts appealed to the federal courts have brought the question of indigenous women´s political participation to the forefront. I examine several of these cases to explore how the courts mediate between the question of collective self-determination and individual women´s rights, how they seek to promote a liberal notion of gender equality, and how women and communities are responding to their rulings in unexpected ways.  I argue that what is at stake is more than just women´s political participation; rather, these rulings reflect contemporary contestations over gender, indigeneity, modernity, and democracy in Mexico more broadly.  
Holly Worthen is a Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas at the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.  She received her Phd in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Her work focuses on gender, migration, development and indigenous politics.

 
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231 White Hall Classroom Building
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Songs of Mexico: Recital on works by María Grever, Tata Nacho, and Agustín Lara

Songs of México: Recital on works by María Grever, Tata Nacho, and Agustín Lara 
presented by Manuel Castillo, tenor
Free and open to the public. 
 
Mr. Castillo is a tenor, trained in the graduate program in the School of Music of the UK College of Fine Arts. For more information on him, visit http://www.manuelmcastillo.com
 
Canciones de México:  Manuel Castillo  presentará  en un recital la música de María Grever, Tata Nacho y Agustín Lara. 
 
Manuel Castillo estudió y se entrenó en tenor en el programa de Música del Departamento de Fine Arts en UK. Para más información de él visita la página http://www.manuelmcastillo.com
 
 
Repertoire for November 19th:
Arturo Buzzi Peccia (1854 - 1943)

Lolita (1892)



María Grever (1894 - 1951)

Lamento Gitano (1929*)



Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982)

Amor vida de mi vida (1941)



Ignacio Fernández Esperón "Tata Nacho" (1894 – 1968)

La borrachita (1917)

Tengo nostalgia de ti (1920*)

Íntima (1928*)



Ernesto de Curtis (1875 - 1937)

Torna a Suriento (1902)



María Grever (1894 - 1951)

Júrame (1926)

Despedida (1946)



José Serrano (1873 - 1941)

Te quiero Morena (1910)



Agustín Lara (1900-1970)

Granada (1932)

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Singletary Recital Hall
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