Terrorizing women
Subtitle: feminicide in the Américas
By: Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, eds.
Contributors: Fregoso, Rosa Linda.; Bejarano, Cynthia L., 1973-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780822346692; 9780822346814
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against -- Latin America; Women -- Violence against -- Latin America; Murder -- Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: feminist keys for understanding feminicide: theoretical, political, and legal construction / Marcela Lagarde y de los R"os; title: Introduction: a cartography of feminicide in the Américas / Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano; title: Localizing feminicide : testimonio / Eva Arce; title: Violencia feminicida : violence against women and Mexico's structural crisis / Mercedes Olivera; title: The victims of Ciudad Juárez feminicide : sexually fetishized commodities / Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso; title: Territory, sovereignty, and crimes of the second state : the writing on the body of murdered women / Rita Laura Segato; title: Getting away with murder : Guatemala's failure to protect women and Rodi Alvarado's quest for safety / Angélica Chìzaro, Jennifer Casey, and Katherine Ruhl; title: Femicides in Mar de Plata / Marta Fontenla; title: Femicide and sexual violence in Guatemala / Hilda Morales Trujillo; title: When violence against women kills : femicide in Costa Rica, 1990-99 / Montserrat Sagot and Ana Carcedo Cabanas; title: Feminicide in Latin America in the movement for women's human rights / Adriana Carmona Lyenpez, Alma Gyenmez Caballero, and Lucha Castro Rodríguez; title: Transnationalizing justice : testimonio / Julia Huamañahui; title: Obedience without compliance : the role of the government, organized crime, and  Ngos in the system of impunity that murders the women of Ciudad Juárez / Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Patricia Ravelo Blancas; title: Innovative transnational remedies for the women of Ciudad Juárez / William Paul Simmons and Rebecca Coplan; title: Global economics and their progenies : theorizing femicide in context / Deborah M. Weissman; title: Searching for accountability on the border : justice for the women of Ciudad Juárez / Christina Iturralde; title: Photo essay : images from the justice movement in Chihuahua, Nexico; title: New citizenship practices : testimonio: / Rosa Franco; title: Ciudadana X : gender violence and the denationalization of women's rights in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico / Alicia Schmidt Camacho; title: Feminicidio : making the most of an "empowered term" / Pascha Bueno-Hansen; title: Paradoxes, protests, and the mujeres de negro of northern Mexico / Melissa W. Wright; title: Testimonio / Norma Ledezma Ortega.