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Book SynopsisBringing together diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis, this is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the murders of more than five hundred women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Feminicidio: The "Black Legend" of the Border (Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán)
- Part One. Interventions
- 1. Accountability for Murder in the Maquiladoras: Linking Corporate Indifference to Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Elvia R. Arriola)
- 2. Poor Brown Female: The Miller's Compensation for "Free" Trade (Alicia Gaspar de Alba)
- 3. Ghost Dance in Ciudad Juárez at the End/Beginning of the Millennium (María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba)
- 4. Gender, Order, and Femicide: Reading the Popular Culture of Murder in Ciudad Juárez (Steven S. Volk and Marian E. Schlotterbeck)
- Part Two. ¡Ni Una Más!
- 5. Binational Civic Action for Accountability: Antiviolence Organizing in Ciudad Juárez/El Paso (Kathleen Staudt and Irasema Coronado)
- 6. The Suffering of the Other (Julia E. Monárrez-Fragoso)
- 7. The V-Day March in Mexico: Appropriation and Misuse of Local Women's Activism (Clara E. Rojas)
- 8. Femicide, Mother-Activism, and the Geography of Protest in Northern Mexico (Melissa W. Wright)
- Part Three. Testimonios
- 9. "The Morgue Was Really from the Dark Ages": Insights from a Forensic Psychologist (Candice Skrapec)
- 10."We'll See Who Wins" (Eva Arce)
- 11. "The Government Has Tried to Divide Us" (Paula Flores)
- 12. Las Hijas de Juárez: Not an Urban Legend (Rigo Maldonado)
- Afterword: Goddess Murder and Gynocide in Ciudad Juárez (Jane Caputi)
- Appendix A: Selected Binational Timeline of the Juárez Femicides
- Appendix B: The Juárez Femicides in Print, Film, and Music: A Partial List
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Reprints and Permissions
