Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border : media representation and public response / edited by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Héctor

Corona, Ignacio, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.

Women.

Gay people--Crimes against--Mexico.

Gay people.

Gender-nonconforming people--Crimes against--Mexico.

Gender-nonconforming people.

Murder--Mexico.

Murder.

Mass media and crime--Mexico.

Mass media and crime.

Physical Description:

[vii], 200 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The U.S.-Mexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is not a new perception. For decades the border has been constructed as a topographic metaphor for all forms of illegality, in which an ineffable link between space and violence is somehow assumed. The sociological and cultural implications of violence have recently emerged at the forefront of academic discussions about the border. And yet few studies have been devoted to one of its most disturbing manifestations: gender violence. This book analyzes this pervasive phenomenon, including the femicides in Ciudad Juarez that have come to exemplify, at least for the media, its most extreme manifestation. Contributors to this volume propose that the study of gender-motivated violence requires interpretive and analytical strategies that draw on methods reaching across the divide between the social sciences and the humanities. Through such an interdisciplinary conversation, the book examines how such violence is (re)presented in oral narratives, newspaper reports, films and documentaries, novels, TV series, and legal discourse. It also examines the role that the media have played in this process, as well as the legal initiatives that might address this pressing social problem. Together these essays offer a new perspective on the implications of, and connections between, gendered forms of violence and topics such as mechanisms of social violence, the micro-social effects of economic models, the asymmetries of power in local, national, and transnational configurations, and the particular rhetoric, aesthetics, and ethics of discourses that represent violence.

Contents:

Gender violence : an introduction / Ignacio Corona and Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba

Violence and transvestite/transgender sex workers in Tijuana / Debra A. Castillo, María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, and Armando Rosas Solís

We never thought it would happen to us : approaches to the study of the subjectivities of the mothers of the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez / Patricia Ravelo Blancas

Death on the screen : imagining violence in border media / Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba

Representations of femicide in border cinema / María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba

Over their dead bodies : reading newspapers on gender violence / Ignacio Corona

Women in the global machine : Patrick Bard's La frontera, Carmen Galán Benitez's Tierra marchita, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood : the Juárez murders / Miguel López-Lozano

¡Alto a la impunidad! Is there legal relief for the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez? / James C. Harrington.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-191) and index.

ISBN:

1-299-19136-3

0-8165-0112-2

OCLC:

759160542