Violence and activism at the border : gender, fear, and everyday life in Ciudad Juarez / Kathleen Staudt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staudt, Kathleen A.

Series:

Inter-America series.

Inter-America series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homicide--Mexico--Ciudad Juarez.

Homicide.

Women--Crimes against--Mexico--Ciudad Juarez.

Women.

Sexual abuse victims--Mexico--Ciudad Juarez.

Sexual abuse victims.

Victims of violent crimes--Mexico--Ciudad Juarez.

Victims of violent crimes.

Women political activists--Mexican-American Border Region.

Women political activists.

Human rights--Mexican-American Border Region.

Human rights.

Police misconduct--Mexico--Ciudad Juarez.

Police misconduct.

Migrant labor--Mexican-American Border Region.

Migrant labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1993 and 2003, more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The murders have continued at a rate of approximately thirty per year, yet law enforcement officials have made no breakthroughs in finding the perpetrator(s). Drawing on in-depth surveys, workshops, and interviews of Juárez women and border activists, Violence and Activism at the Border provides crucial links between these disturbing crimes and a broader history of violence against women in Mexico. In addition, the ways in which local feminist activists used the Juárez murders to create international publicity and expose police impunity provides a unique case study of social movements in the borderlands, especially as statistics reveal that the rates of femicide in Juárez are actually similar to other regions of Mexico. Also examining how non-governmental organizations have responded in the face of Mexican law enforcement's "normalization" of domestic violence, Staudt's study is a landmark development in the realm of global human rights.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgments

Violence at the U.S.-Mexico border: framing perspectives

Culture and globalization: male backlash at the border

Women speak about violence and fear: surveys and workshops

Appendix 3A: Research design

Appendix 3B: Brochures distributed to participants

Framing and mobilizing border activism: from femicide to violence against women

Appendix 4A: Fiction or nonfiction?

Appendix 4B: V-Day 2004 proclamation, city of El Paso

Government responses to violence against women

Toward eradicating violence against women at the border: conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-79435-5

OCLC:

646793556