Terrorizing Women

Feminicide in the Americas

Szerző: Rosa-Linda Fregoso

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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More than 600 women and girls have been murdered and more than 1,000 disappeared in the Mexican stat...

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Szerző

Rosa-Linda Fregoso

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

416

EAN

9780822346814

ISBN

0822346818

Enbook ID

04939126

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

608

Méretek

156 x 236 x 25

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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 Women" is 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 rooted in gendered power structures as violations of human rights. The analytical framework of 'feminicide' is crucial to that effort, as the editors explain in their introduction. They define feminicide as gender-based violence that implicates both the state (directly or indirectly) and individual perpetrators. It is structural violence rooted in social, political, economic, and cultural inequalities. "Terrorizing Women" brings together essays by feminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the United States, as well as testimonios by relatives of women who were disappeared or murdered. In addition to investigating egregious violations of women's human rights, the contributors consider feminicide in relation to neoliberal economic policies, the violent legacies of military regimes, and the sexual fetishization of women's bodies. They suggest strategies for confronting feminicide; propose legal, political, and social routes for redressing injustices; and, track alternative remedies generated by the communities affected by gender-based violence. In a photo essay portraying the justice movement in Chihuahua, relatives of disappeared and murdered women bear witness to feminicide and demand accountability.

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