Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border
Subtitle: media representation and public response
By: edited by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona.
Contributors: Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Héctor, 1962-; Corona, Ignacio, 1960-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816527120
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez; Gays -- Crimes against -- Mexico; Transvestites -- Crimes against -- Mexico; Murder -- Mexico; Mass media and crime -- Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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; title: Over their dead bodies : reading newspapers on border violence / Ignacio Corona; title: Women in the global machine in 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.