Violence and activism at the border : gender, fear, and everyday life in Ciudad Juárez /
Between 1993 and 2003, more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Jùrez 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 perpetr...
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Inter-America series.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Violence at the U.S.-Mexico border: framing perspectives
- Culture and globalization: male backlash at the border
- Women speak about violence and fear: surveys and workshops
- Appendix 3A: Research design
- Appendix 3B: Brochures distributed to participants
- Framing and mobilizing border activism: from femicide to violence against women
- Appendix 4A: Fiction or nonfiction?
- Appendix 4B: V-Day 2004 proclamation, city of El Paso
- Government responses to violence against women
- Toward eradicating violence against women at the border: conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.