Eterna violencia : vidas de las mujeres ladinas en Guatemala / Cecilia Menjívar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menjívar, Cecilia, author.

Series:

Colección Nuestra palabra

Colección Nuestra palabra

Standardized Title:

Enduring violence. Spanish

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Women--Guatemala--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Violence against--Guatemala.

Ladino (Latin American people)--Violence against--Guatemala.

Ladino (Latin American people).

Violence--Guatemala.

Violence.

Women--Social conditions.

Women--Violence against.

Guatemala.

Physical Description:

294 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

Primera edición en español.

Place of Publication:

Sacatepéquez, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Centro América : Del Pensativo Ediciones ; Guatemala, Guatemala, Centroamérica : FLACSO-Guatemala, 2014.

Summary:

Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, the author investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, the author turns to a different form of suffering, the violence embedded in institutions and in everyday life so familiar and routine that it is often not recognized as such. Rather than painting Guatemala (or even Latin America) as having a cultural propensity for normalizing and accepting violence, she aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence, profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situations, grounded in women's experiences. In this way, her study provides a glimpse into the root causes of the increasing wave of feminicide in Guatemala, as well as in other Latin American countries, and offers observations relevant for understanding violence against women around the world today.

Contents:

Acercamiento a la violencia en el oriente de Guatemala

Marco conceptual para analizar la violencia

Dimensiones corporales de la violencia de género

Vínculos matrimoniales y normalización del sufrimiento

Niñez, maternidad y normalización del dolor y sacrificio

Trabajo femenino

Iglesia, religión y prevalencia de la violencia cotidiana

Aguantando la violencia.

Notes:

Originally published by University of California Press in English in 2011 with the title Enduring violence: Ladina women's lives in Guatemala.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-294).

ISBN:

9789929809093

9929809090

OCLC:

904998628