Terrorizing women : feminicide in the Américas /

More than 600 women and girls have been murdered and more than 1,000 have disappeared in the Mexican state of Chihuahua since 1993. Violence against women has increased throughout Mexico and in other countries, including Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Peru. Law enforcement officials have ofte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fregoso, Rosa Linda, Bejarano, Cynthia L., 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, [2010]
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Women > Crimes against > Latin America.
Women > Violence against > Latin America.
Murder > Latin America.
Femmes > Crimes contre > Amérique latine.
Femmes > Violence envers > Amérique latine.
Meurtre > Amérique latine.
15.85 history of America.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Society.
Murder
Women > Crimes against
Women > Violence against
Frau
Verbrechensopfer
Tötung
Gewalt
Sozialgeschichte
Women.
Murders.
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Mexiko
Latin America.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: feminist keys for understanding feminicide: theoretical, political, and legal construction / Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos
  • Introduction: a cartography of feminicide in the Américas / 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 Juárez feminicide : sexually fetishized commodities / Julia Estela Monárrez 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 / Angélica Chìzaro, 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 Rodríguez
  • Transnationalizing justice : testimonio / Julia Huamañahui
  • Obedience without compliance : the role of the government, organized crime, and Ngos in the system of impunity that murders the women of Ciudad Juárez / Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Patricia Ravelo Blancas
  • Innovative transnational remedies for the women of Ciudad Juárez / 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 Juárez / 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 Juárez, 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.

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