Violence and Activism at the Border : Gender, Fear, and Everyday LIfe in Ciudad Juárez /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Staudt, Kathleen A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Migrant labor > Mexican-American Border Region.
Police misconduct > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Human rights > Mexican-American Border Region.
Women political activists > Mexican-American Border Region.
Victims of violent crimes > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Sexual abuse victims > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Women > Crimes against > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Homicide > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Violence at the U.S.-Mexico border: framing perspectives
  • Culture and globalization: male backlash at the border
  • Women speak about violence and fear: surveys and workshops
  • Appendix 3A: Research design
  • Appendix 3B: Brochures distributed to participants
  • Framing and mobilizing border activism: from femicide to violence against women
  • Appendix 4A: Fiction or nonfiction?
  • Appendix 4B: V-Day 2004 proclamation, city of El Paso
  • Government responses to violence against women
  • Toward eradicating violence against women at the border: conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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