Writing terror on the bodies of women : media coverage of violence against women in Guatemala /

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Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala analyzes the scope and dynamics of violence against women in Guatemala and how it is represented in the print media. Using nearly two thousand Guatemalan newspaper reports covering murders and assaults on wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: England, Sarah, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:Latin American gender and sexualities.
Subjects:
Women > Violence against > Guatemala.
Women > Guatemala > Social conditions.
Violence > Press coverage > Guatemala.
Women > Press coverage > Guatemala.
Femmes > Violence envers > Guatemala.
Femmes > Guatemala > Conditions sociales.
Violence dans la presse > Guatemala.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Violence > Press coverage
Women > Press coverage
Women > Social conditions
Women > Violence against
Guatemala
Guatemala.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Violence against women in the media
  • A good place to commit murder
  • The war against women
  • The growth of the women's movement and challenges to the patriarchal state
  • Visible violence, invisible assassins: "necrographic maps" and terror in Guatemalan murder reports
  • "Easy targets," "cannon fodder," and the "wrong path"
  • "Violence lies in wait for women at home": framing VAW as domestic violence
  • "For no apparent reason," "in a drunken state," "blinded by jealousy," "after an argument," and other stories of "love gone wrong" that frame domestic violence reports
  • From genocide to feminicide: blaming patriarchy, impunity, and the state for VAW

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