Making a killing
Subtitle: femicide, free trade, and la frontera
By: edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba with Georgina Guzmán
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Chicana matters series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780292722774; 9780292723177
Subjects: Homicide; Crimes against; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Accountability for murder in the Maquiladoras : linking corporate indifference to gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border / Elvia R. Arriola; title: Poor brown female : the Miller's compensation for "free" trade / Alicia Gaspar de Alba; title: Ghost dance in Ciudad Juárez at the end/beginning of the millennium / María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba; title: Gender, order, and femicide : reading the popular culture of murder in Ciudad Juárez / Steven S. Volk and Marian E. Schlotterbeck; title: Binational civic action for accountability : antiviolence organizing in Ciudad Juárez/El Paso / Kathleen Staudt and Irasema Coronado; title: The suffering of the other / Julia E. Monárrez-Fragoso; title: The V-day march in Mexico : appropriation and misuse of local women's activism / Clara E. Rojas; title: Femicide, mother-activism, and the geography of protest in Northern Mexico / Melissa W. Wright; title: "The morgue was really from the dark ages" : insights from a forensic psychologist / Candice Skrapec; title: "We'll see who wins" / Eva Arce; title: "The government has tried to divide us" / Paula Flores; title: Las Hijas de Juárez : not an urban legend / Rigo Maldonado.