Making a Killing

Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera

Autor: Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Guzman Georgina

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Texas Press

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Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez across the bo...

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Autor

Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Guzman Georgina

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2010

strony

328

EAN

9780292723177

ISBN

0292723172

Enbook ID

04873082

Wydawca

University of Texas Press

Waga

535

Wymiary

141 x 222 x 25

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Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well. Thousands more have been reported missing and remain unaccounted for. The crimes have been poorly investigated and have gone unpunished and unresolved by Mexican authorities, thus creating an epidemic of misogynist violence on an increasingly globalized U.S.-Mexico border. This book, the first anthology to focus exclusively on the Juarez femicides, as the crimes have come to be known, compiles several different scholarly "interventions" from diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis. Editor Alicia Gaspar de Alba shapes a multidisciplinary analytical framework for considering the interconnections between gender, violence, and the U.S.-Mexico border. The essays examine the social and cultural conditions that have led to the heinous victimization of women on the borderofrom globalization, free trade agreements, exploitative maquiladora working conditions, and border politics, to the sexist attitudes that pervade the social discourse about the victims. The book also explores the evolving social movement that has been created by NGOs, mothers' organizing efforts, and other grassroots forms of activism related to the crimes. Contributors include U.S. and Mexican scholars and activists, as well as personal testimonies of two mothers of femicide victims.

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