Making a Killing Femicide, Free Trade, and la Frontera

Name: Making a Killing Femicide, Free Trade, and la Frontera
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ISBN: 9780292723177

ISBN-10: 0292723172

ISBN-13: 9780292723177

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Georgina Guzmï¿½n, Georgina Guzmï¿½n

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Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juaacute;rez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well. Thousands more have been reported missing and remain unaccounted for. The crimes have been poorly investigated and have gone unpunished and unresolved by Mexican authorities, thus creating an epidemic of misogynist violence on an increasingly globalized U.S.-Mexico border. This book, the first anthology to focus exclusively on the Juaacute;rez femicides, as the crimes have come to be known, compiles several different scholarly "interventions" from diverse perspectives, including feminism,…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 11/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA, a native of the El Paso/Juï¿½rez border, is Professor and Chair of the Cï¿½sar Chï¿½vez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA. She has published eight other books, including Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition.

GEORGINA GUZMï¿½N is a PhD candidate in English at UCLA.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Feminicidio: The "Black Legend" of the Border




Interventions



Accountability for Murder in the Maquiladoras: Linking Corporate Indifference to Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border




Poor Brown Female: The Miller's Compensation for "Free" Trade




Ghost Dance in Ciudad Juï¿½rez at the End/Beginning of the Millennium




Gender, Order, and Femicide: Reading the Popular Culture of Murder in Ciudad Juï¿½rez




<sub>i</sub>Ni Una Mï¿½s!



Binational Civic Action for Accountability: Antiviolence Organizing in Ciudad Juï¿½rez/El Paso




The Suffering of the Other




The V-Day March in Mexico: Appropriation and Misuse of Local Women's Activism




Femicide, Mother-Activism, and the Geography of Protest in Northern Mexico




Testimonios



"The Morgue Was Really from the Dark Ages": Insights from a Forensic Psychologist




"We'll See Who Wins"




"The Government Has Tried to Divide Us"




Las Hijas de Juï¿½rez: Not an Urban Legend



Afterword: Goddess Murder and Gynocide in Ciudad Juï¿½rez




Selected Bi-national Timeline of the Juï¿½rez Femicides



The Juï¿½rez Femicides in Print, Film, and Music: A Partial List


Notes on Contributors


Index


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