Research Catalog

Title

Terrorizing women : feminicide in the Américas / Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, editors ; with a preface by Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos.

Publication

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bejarano, Cynthia L., 1973-
• Fregoso, Rosa Linda.

Description

xxviii, 382 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Women > Crimes against > Latin America
• Murder > Latin America
• Women > Violence against > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface: Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide: Theoretical, Political, and Legal Construction / De Los Rios -- Introduction: A Cartography of Feminicide in the Americas / Cynthia Bejarano -- PART I. 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 / Katherine Ruhl -- Femicides in Mar del Plata / Marta Fontenla -- Femicide and Sexual Violence in Guatemala / Hilda Morales Trujillo -- When Violence against Women Kills: Femicide in Costa Rica, 1990-99 / Ana Carcedo Cabanas -- Feminicide in Latin America and the Movement for Women's Human Rights / Lucha Castro Rodriguez -- PART II. 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 / Patricia Ravelo Blancas -- Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juarez / 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, Mexico -- PART III. 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.

ISBN

• 9780822346692 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822346699 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822346814 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0822346818 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009047827

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries