This article explores the tension between multicultural legal reforms and the liberal state-building project in present-day Mexico. Specifically, it traces the process by which the Mexican state challenged and eventually forced changes to customary restrictions on women in public life in some indigenous communities in the southern state of Oaxaca. The study argues that the act of formalizing autonomy for indigenous communities, in the context of Mexico’s homogenizing neoliberal state, had the unanticipated effect of exposing exclusionary practices to state scrutiny, which eventually forced those communities to recognize women’s political rights. Thus the effort to protect indigenous practices facilitated the territorial and juridical expansion of the Mexican state into formerly autonomous areas of the countryside.

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墨西哥原住民的从属自治和妇女的政治包容

本文探讨了当今墨西哥的多元文化法律改革与自由国家建设项目之间的紧张关系。具体来说，它追溯了墨西哥州挑战并最终强制改变南部瓦哈卡州一些土著社区对妇女参与公共生活的习惯限制的过程。该研究认为，在墨西哥同质化的新自由主义国家背景下，将土著社区的自治正式化的行为具有将排他性做法暴露于国家审查的意料之外的影响，最终迫使这些社区承认妇女的政治权利。因此，保护​​土著习俗的努力促进了墨西哥国家在领土和司法上向以前的农村自治地区扩张。