Terrorizing Women

Feminicide in the Americas

Autor: Fregoso, Rosa-Linda; Bejarano, Cynthia L.; de los Rios, Marcela Lagarde y; Olivera, Mercedes
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822346692
eISBN Pdf: 9780822392644
Lugar de publicación: Durham , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2010
Mes: Junio
Páginas: 416
DDC: 362.83
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

More than 600 women and girls have been murdered and more than 1,000 have 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 truth and justice to survivors of violence and victims’ relatives. 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 a violation 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.

Contributors: Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Adriana Carmona López, Ana Carcedo Cabañas, Jennifer Casey, Lucha Castro Rodríguez , Angélica Cházaro, Rebecca Coplan, Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Marta Fontenla, Alma Gomez Caballero, Christina Iturralde, Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos, Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso, Hilda Morales Trujillo, Mercedes Olivera, Patricia Ravelo Blancas, Katherine Ruhl, Montserrat Sagot, Rita Laura Segato, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, William Paul Simmons, Deborah M. Weissman, Melissa W. Wright

Contents
Preface: Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide: Theoretical, Political, and Legal Construction (Marcela Lagarde y de Los Ríos)
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Cartography of Feminicide in the Américas (Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano)
Part I: Localizing Feminicide
- Testimonio: Eva Arce
- Violencia Feminicida: Violence against Women and Mexico’s Structural Crisis (Mercedes Olivera)
- The Victims of Ciudad Juárez Feminicide: Sexually Fetishized Commodities (Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso)
- Territory, Sovereignty, and Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women (Rita Laura Segato)
- Getting Away with Murder: Guatemala’s Failure to Protect Women and Rodi Alvarado’s Quest for Safety (Angélica Cházaro, Jennifer Casey, and Katherine Ruhl)
- Femicides in Mar del Plata (Marta Fontenla)
- Femicide and Sexual Violence in Guatemala (Hilda Morales Trujillo)
- When Violence against Women Kills: Femicide in Costa Rica, 1990–99 (Montserrat Sagot and Ana Carcedo Cabañas)
- Feminicide in Latin America and the Movement for Women’s Human Rights (Adriana Carmona López, Alma Gómez Caballero, and Lucha Castro Rodríguez)
Part II: Transnationalizing Justice
- Testimonio: Julia Huamañahui
- Obedience without Compliance: The Role of the Government, Organized Crime, and NGOs in the System of Impunity That Murders the Women of Ciudad Juárez (Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Patricia Ravelo Blancas)
- Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juárez (William Paul Simmons and Rebecca Coplan)
- Global Economics and Their Progenies: Theorizing Femicide in Context (Deborah M. Weissman)
- Searching for Accountability on the Border: Justice for the Women of Ciudad Juárez (Christina Iturralde)
- Photo Essay: Images from the Justice Movement in Chihuahua, Mexico
Part III: New Citizenship Practices
- Testimonio: Rosa Franco
- Ciudadana X: Gender Violence and the Denationalization of Women’s Rights in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (Alicia Schmidt Camacho)
- Feminicidio: Making the Most of an "Empowered Term" (Pascha Bueno-Hansen)
- Paradoxes, Protests, and the Mujeres de Negro of Northern Mexico (Melissa W. Wright)
- Testimonio: Norma Ledezma Ortega
References
Contributors
Index