Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border
Subtitle: media representation and public response
By: edited by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780816527120
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender violence : an introduction  -- Ignacio Corona and Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba; title: Violence and transvestite/transgender sex workers in Tijuana  -- Debra A. Castillo, María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, and Armando Rosas Solís; title: We never thought it would happen to us : approaches to the study of the subjectivities of the mothers of the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez  -- Patricia Ravelo Blancas; title: Death on the screen : imagining violence in border media  -- Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba; title: Representations of femicide in border cinema  -- María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba -- Over their dead bodies : reading newspapers on gender violence / -- Ignacio Corona; title: Women in the global machine : Patrick Bard's La frontera, Carmen Galán Benitez's Tierra marchita, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood : the Juárez murders  -- Miguel López-Lozano; title: ¡Alto a la impunidad! Is there legal relief for the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez? -- James C. Harrington.