Terrorizing Women Feminicide in the Americas

Name: Terrorizing Women Feminicide in the Americas
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ISBN: 9780822346814

ISBN-10: 0822346818

ISBN-13: 9780822346814

Edition: 2010

Authors: Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Cynthia L. Bejarano

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More than 600 women and girls have been murdered and more than 1,000 disappeared in the Mexican state of Chihuahua since 1993. Violence against women has increased throughout Mexico and in other countries including Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Peru. Law enforcement officials have often failed or refused to undertake investigations and prosecutions, creating a climate of impunity for perpetrators and denying survivors of violence and victims' relatives truth and justice.Terrorizing Womenis an impassioned yet rigorously analytical response to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades. It is part of a feminist effort to categorize violence…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/18/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Preface: Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide: Theoretical, Political, and Legal Construction



Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Cartography of Feminicide in the Amï¿½ricas




Localizing Feminicide


Testimonio: Eva Arce


Violencia Feminicida: Violence against Women and Mexico's Structural Crisis



The Victims of Ciudad Juï¿½rez Feminicide: Sexually Fetishized Commodities



Territory, Sovereignty, and Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women



Getting Away with Murder: Guatemala's Failure to Protect Women and Rodi Alvarado's Quest for Safety



Femicides in Mar del Plata



Femicide and Sexual Violence in Guatemala



When Violence against Women Kills: Femicide in Costa Rica, 1990-99



Feminicide in Latin America and the Movement for Women's Human Rights




Transnationalizing Justice


Testimonio: Julia Huamaï¿½ahui


Obedience without Compliance: The Role of the Government, Organized Crime, and Ngos in the System of Impunity That Murders the Women of Ciudad Juï¿½rez



Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juï¿½rez



Global Economics and Their Progenies: Theorizing Femicide in Context



Searching for Accountability on the Border: Justice for the Women of Ciudad Juï¿½rez



Photo Essay: Images from the Justice Movement in Chihuahua, Mexico



New Citizenship Practices


Testimonio: Rosa Franco


Ciudadana X: Gender Violence and the Denationalization of Women's Rights in Ciudad Juï¿½rez, Mexico



Feminicidio: Making the Most of an "Empowered Term"



Paradoxes, Protests, and the Mujeres de Negro of Northern Mexico



Testimonio: Norma Ledezma Ortega


References


Contributors


Index