Violence and Activism at the Border : : Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez / / Kathleen Staudt.
Between 1993 and 2003, more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The murders have continued at a rate of approximately thirty per year, yet law enforcement officials have made no breakthroughs in finding the perpet...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Inter-America Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Violence at the U.S.-Mexico border: Framing perspectives
- Chapter 2 Culture and globalization: Male backlash at the border
- Chapter 3 Women speak about violence and fear: Surveys and workshops
- Chapter 4 Framing and mobilizing border activism: From femicide to violence against women
- Chapter 5 Government responses to violence against women
- Chapter 6 Toward eradicating violence against women at the border: Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index