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