Enduring Violence : Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala

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Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar 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, Menjívar turns to a di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Menjívar, Cecilia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Violence against.
Women > Social conditions.
Violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Violence > Guatemala.
Ladinos > Violence envers > Guatemala.
Femmes > Violence envers > Guatemala.
Femmes > Guatemala > Conditions sociales.
Ladino (Latin American people) > Violence against > Guatemala.
Women > Violence against > Guatemala.
Women > Guatemala > Social conditions.
Guatemala.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar 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, Menjívar 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, Menjívar 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780520948419

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