Terrorizing women : feminicide in the Americas / Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fregoso, Rosa Linda.

Bejarano, Cynthia L., 1973-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against--Latin America.

Women.

Women--Violence against--Latin America.

Murder--Latin America.

Murder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Feminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the U.S. respond to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades.

Contents:

Preface: feminist keys for understanding feminicide: theoretical, political, and legal construction / Marcela Lagarde y de los R"os

Introduction: a cartography of feminicide in the Americas / Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano

Localizing feminicide : testimonio / Eva Arce

Violencia feminicida : violence against women and Mexico's structural crisis / Mercedes Olivera

The victims of Ciudad Juarez feminicide : sexually fetishized commodities / Julia Estela Monarrez Fragoso

Territory, sovereignty, and crimes of the second state : the writing on the body of murdered women / Rita Laura Segato

Getting away with murder : Guatemala's failure to protect women and Rodi Alvarado's quest for safety / Angelica Chizaro, Jennifer Casey, and Katherine Ruhl

Femicides in Mar de Plata / Marta Fontenla

Femicide and sexual violence in Guatemala / Hilda Morales Trujillo

When violence against women kills : femicide in Costa Rica, 1990-99 / Montserrat Sagot and Ana Carcedo Cabanas

Feminicide in Latin America in the movement for women's human rights / Adriana Carmona Lyenpez, Alma Gyenmez Caballero, and Lucha Castro Rodriguez

Transnationalizing justice : testimonio / Julia Huamanahui

Obedience without compliance : the role of the government, organized crime, and Ngos in the system of impunity that murders the women of Ciudad Juarez / Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba and Patricia Ravelo Blancas

Innovative transnational remedies for the women of Ciudad Juarez / William Paul Simmons and Rebecca Coplan

Global economics and their progenies : theorizing femicide in context / Deborah M. Weissman

Searching for accountability on the border : justice for the women of Ciudad Juarez / Christina Iturralde

Photo essay : images from the justice movement in Chihuahua, Nexico

New citizenship practices : testimonio: / Rosa Franco

Ciudadana X : gender violence and the denationalization of women's rights in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico / Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Feminicidio : making the most of an "empowered term" / Pascha Bueno-Hansen

Paradoxes, protests, and the mujeres de negro of northern Mexico / Melissa W. Wright

Testimonio / Norma Ledezma Ortega.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-03669-X

9786613036698

0-8223-9264-X

OCLC:

645337342