Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas PDF
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TERRORIZING WOMEN ROSA-LINDA FREGOSO AND CYNTHIA BEJARANO, EDITORS TERRORIZING WOMEN Feminicide in the Américas WITH A PREFACE BY MARCELA LAGARDE Y DE LOS RÍOS k DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS DURHAM AND LONDON 2010 ∫ 2010 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper $ Typeset in Carter and Cone Galliard with Gill Sans display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. k IN MEMORY OF THE WOMEN AND GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND DISAPPEARED. k Contents marcela lagarde y de los ríos Preface: Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide: Theoretical, Political, and Legal Construction xi Acknowledgments xxvii rosa-linda fregoso and cynthia bejarano Introduction: A Cartography of Feminicide in the Américas 1 PART I: LOCALIZING FEMINICIDE Testimonio: Eva Arce 45 mercedes olivera Violencia Feminicida: Violence against Women and Mexico’s Structural Crisis 49 julia estela monárrez fragoso The Victims of Ciudad Juárez Feminicide: Sexually Fetishized Commodities 59 rita laura segato Territory, Sovereignty, and Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women 70 angélica cházaro, jennifer casey, and katherine ruhl Getting Away with Murder: Guatemala’s Failure to Protect Women and Rodi Alvarado’s Quest for Safety 93 marta fontenla Femicides in Mar del Plata 116 hilda morales trujillo Femicide and Sexual Violence in Guatemala 127 viii Contents montserrat sagot and ana carcedo cabañas When Violence against Women Kills: Femicide in Costa Rica, 1990–99 138 adriana carmona lópez, alma gómez caballero, and lucha castro rodríguez Feminicide in Latin America and the Movement for Women’s Human Rights 157 PART II: TRANSNATIONALIZING JUSTICE Testimonio: Julia Huamañahui 179 héctor domínguez-ruvalcaba and patricia ravelo blancas Obedience without Compliance: The Role of the Government, Organized Crime, and ngos in the System of Impunity That Murders the Women of Ciudad Juárez 182 william paul simmons and rebecca coplan Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juárez 197 deborah m. weissman Global Economics and Their Progenies: Theorizing Femicide in Context 225 christina iturralde Searching for Accountability on the Border: Justice for the Women of Ciudad Juárez 243 Photo Essay: Images from the Justice Movement in Chihuahua, Mexico 263 PART III: NEW CITIZENSHIP PRACTICES Testimonio: Rosa Franco 273 alicia schmidt camacho Ciudadana X: Gender Violence and the Denationalization of Women’s Rights in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 275 pascha bueno-hansen Feminicidio: Making the Most of an ‘‘Empowered Term’’ 290 melissa w. wright Paradoxes, Protests, and the Mujeres de Negro of Northern Mexico 312 Contents ix Testimonio: Norma Ledezma Ortega 331 References 335 Contributors 367 Index 371
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