Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas

414 Pages·2010·1.561 MB·English

by  Rosa-Linda Fregoso (editor), Cynthia Bejarano (editor)

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
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IN MEMORY OF
THE WOMEN AND GIRLS
WHO HAVE BEEN MURDERED
AND DISAPPEARED.

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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
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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