Research Catalog

Title

Enduring violence : Ladina women's lives in Guatemala / Cecilia Menjívar.

Author

Menjívar, Cecilia.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

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Description

xiv, 288 p.; 23 cm.

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.

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Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Women > Guatemala > Social conditions
• Women > Violence against > Guatemala
• Ladino (Latin American people) > Violence against > Guatemala
• Violence > Guatemala

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-272) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Approaching Violence in Eastern Guatemala -- A Framework for Examining Violence -- Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman's Self and Body -- Marital Unions and the Normalization of Suffering -- Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice -- Women's Work: Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality -- Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence -- Enduring Violence.

ISBN

• 9780520267664 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520267664 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780520267671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0520267672 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010037628

OCLC

• 663102426
• SCSB-11886691

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library