Violence and activism at the border
Subtitle: gender, fear, and everyday life in Ciudad Juárez
By: Kathleen Staudt.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Inter-American series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292716704; 9780292718241
Subjects: Homicide -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez; Women -- Crimes against -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez; Sexual abuse victims -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez; Victims of violent crimes -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez; Women political activists -- Mexican-American Border Region; Human rights -- Mexican-American Border Region; Police misconduct -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez; Migrant labor -- Mexican-American Border Region
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments; title: Violence at the U.S.-Mexico border: framing perspectives; title: Culture and globalization: male backlash at the border; title: Women speak about violence and fear: surveys and workshops; title: Appendix 3A. Research design; title: Appendix 3B. Brochures distributed to participants; title: Framing and mobilizing border activism: from femicide to violence against women; title: Appendix 4A. Fiction or nonfiction?; title: Appendix 4B. V-Day 2004 proclamation, city of El Paso; title: Government responses to violence against women; title: Toward eradicating violence against women at the border: Conclusions; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.