Fregoso / Bejarano Terrorizing Women

Feminicide in the Americas
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9264-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 412 Seiten

Feminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the U.S. respond to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fregoso, Rosa-Linda

Bejarano, Cynthia L.

Weitere Mitwirkende

de los Rios, Marcela Lagarde y

Olivera, Mercedes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide: Theoretical, Political, and Legal Construction / Marcela Lagarede y de los Ríos xi

Acknowledgments xxvii

Introduction. A Cartography of Feminicide in the Américas / Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano 1

Part I: Localizing Feminicide

Testimonio: Eva Arce 45

Violencia Feminicida: Violence against Women and Mexico's Structural Crisis / Mercedes Olivera 49

The Victims of Cuidad Juárez Feminicide: Sexually Fetishized Commodities / Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso 59

Territory, Sovereignty, and the Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women / Rita Laura Segato 70

Getting Away with Murder: Guatemala's Failure to Protect Women and Rodi Alvarado's Quest for Safety / Angélica Cházaro, Jennifer Casey, and Katherine Ruhl 93

Femicides in Mar de Plata / Marta Fontenla 116

Femicide and Sexual Violence in Guatemala / Hilda Morales Trujillo 127

When Violence against Women Kills: Femicide in Costa Rica, 1990–99 / Montserrat Sagot and Ana Carcedo Cabañas 138

Feminicide in Latin America in the Movement for Women's Human Rights / Adriana Carmona López, Alma Gómez Caballero, and Lucha Castro Rodríguez 157

Part II. Transnationalizing Justice

Testimonio: Julia Huamañahui 179

Obedience without Compliance: The Role of the Government, Organized Crime, and NGOs in the System of Impunity That Murders the Women of Cuidad Juárez / Héctor Domíguez-Ruvalcaba and Patricia Ravelo Blancas 182

Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Cuidad Juárez / William Paul Simmons and Rebecca Coplan 197

Global Economics and Their Progenies: Theorizing Femicide in Context / Deborah M. Weissman 225

Searching for Accountability on the Border: Justice for the Women of Cuidad Juárez / Christina Iturralde 243

Photo Essay: Images from the Justice Movement in Chihuahua, Mexico 263

Part III. New Citizenship Practices

Testimonio: Rosa Franco 273

Cuidadana X: Gender Violence and the Denationalization of Women's Rights in Cuidad Juárez, Mexico / Alicia Schmidt Camacho 275

Feminicidio: Making the Most of an "Empowered Term" / Pascha Bueno-Hansen 290

Paradoxes, Protests, and the Mujeres de Negro of Northern Mexico / Melissa W. Wright 312

Testimonio: Norma Ledezma Ortega 331

References 335

Contributors 367

Index 371

Über Autor(innen)

Rosa-Linda Fregoso is Professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands and Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture.Cynthia L. Bejarano is Regent Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at New Mexico State University. She is the author of Que Onda? Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity.