Violence and activism at the border : gender, fear, and everyday life in Ciudad Juárez / Kathleen Staudt.

Author/creator Staudt, Kathleen A.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Descriptionxvi, 184 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Homicide--Mexico. --Ciudad Juárez.
Women--Crimes against. --Mexico. --Ciudad Juárez.
Sexual abuse victims--Mexico. --Ciudad Juárez.
Victims of violent crimes--Mexico. --Ciudad Juárez.
Women political activists--Mexican-American Border Region.
Human rights--Mexican-American Border Region.
Police misconduct--Mexico. --Ciudad Juárez.
Migrant labor--Mexican-American Border Region.

SeriesInter-America series
Inter-America series. ^A586292
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178) and index.
LCCN 2007038705
ISBN9780292716704 (alk. paper)
ISBN0292716702 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780292718241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0292718241 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HV6535.M43 C588 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold