{"product_id":"terrorizing-women-9780822346814","title":"Terrorizing Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the U.S. respond to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and essential read for people concerned about gender violence in intersection with multiple forms of injustice. Scholars, activists, legal experts and relatives of women murdered or disappeared expose feminicide as a complexly-layered social problem that demands urgent action. Insightful conceptual introductions by editors Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, and by feminist activist\/academic\/politician Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos, are followed by useful analyses and concrete suggestions aimed at stopping feminicide and advancing justice.” - Barbara Sutton, \u003ci\u003eInternational Feminist Journal of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fregoso and Bejarano seek to introduce a human rights framework to our understanding of misogynistic murders. . . . The book makes the point that feminicide must be analysed within local and global networks of complicity. . . . The great value I see in this book is that it extends the conversation about femicide\/feminicide beyond Mexico and into the rest of the Americas.” - Alicia Gaspar de Alba, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he range of Latin American and trans-border authors and disciplinary\u003cbr\u003eperspectives . . . combine to convey a sense of informed and urgent feminist debate. If one insight can be distilled from the case studies and scholarly analyses, it comes from Julia Huamanahui. As her brother-in-law rapes her he gloats: ‘Even if you scream, no one will hear you’. Years later, abandoning hope of legal recourse for her pregnant sister’s brutal murder, for which the husband is the only suspect, Julia concludes: ‘I think that for a person who is poor, there is no justice’. This book offers some possible alternatives to such lonely terror.” - Deborah Eade, \u003ci\u003eGender and Development\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The writing here is . . . often urgent and disturbing. It always conveys the message that export-led economic development strategies and neoliberal restructuring plans, privatized police and justice systems, and the cultural and practical legacies from civil war and military dictatorship produce gendered perpetrators, victims, and cultures of impunity. Recommended.” - L. D. Brush,\u003ci\u003e Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid account of the complex interrelations between multiple factors that permit and encourage feminicide. By showing the enormity and deep roots of the problem of violence against women in Latin America, \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Women \u003c\/i\u003ealso allows readers to understand why feminicide has continued virtually unchecked for decades.” - Laura Jennings, \u003ci\u003eSocial Forces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anyone who is interested in gaining a deeper understanding of gendered violence and the phenomenon of feminicide in Latin America must read Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano’s \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Women\u003c\/i\u003e. The book’s powerful contribution is to bring together the diverse voices of scholars, human rights lawyers, and activists, whose analyses help us better understand the structural and legal norms which give rise to the escalating violence against, and murders of, women.”—\u003cb\u003eKaren Musalo\u003c\/b\u003e, founding director, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Hastings College of the Law\u003cbr\u003e“The concerted emergence of \u003ci\u003efeminicidio\u003c\/i\u003e finally traces the deep hollow of an absent international crime and a silent human rights violation. Now, fundamental inquiries must surface. Should the Genocide Convention be re-drafted to suppress, pursue, and punish \u003ci\u003efeminicidio\u003c\/i\u003e? Isn’t a peace that is only defined by the cessation of armed conflict one that can tolerate \u003ci\u003efeminicidio\u003c\/i\u003e? Isn’t securing transitional justice a perpetual ‘State’ for females? The authors’ piercingly astute observations disintegrate illusory historical, geographical, political, and sexual frontiers that confine us and assign us ‘partial human rights status.’ Yes, we rise to your siren.”—\u003cb\u003ePatricia Sellers\u003c\/b\u003e, former legal advisor for gender-related crimes, Office of the Prosecutor, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia\u003cbr\u003e“This one-of-a-kind book presents a collaborative hemispheric conversation among feminists responding to a crisis of overwhelming importance. It is a call to action from the field, a provocation for a new kind of knowledge and a new kind of activism. It is a book about history that will itself make history.”—\u003cb\u003eGeorge Lipsitz\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies in a Moment of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A well-written and thoughtfully organized edited volume. . . . \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Women\u003c\/i\u003e is among the most illuminating collections on the study of contemporary violence as it intersects with gendered racism, the exploitation endemic to neoliberal capitalism, and the complicity of nation-states in rendering women’s bodies vulnerable to violence in the formal and informal markets of capital and misogyny.” -- Molly Talcott * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e“. . . \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid account of the complex interrelations between multiple factors that permit and encourage feminicide. By showing the enormity and deep roots of the problem of violence against women in Latin America, \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Women \u003c\/i\u003ealso allows readers to understand why feminicide has continued virtually unchecked for decades.” -- Laura Jennings * Social Forces *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and essential read for people concerned about gender violence in intersection with multiple forms of injustice. Scholars, activists, legal experts and relatives of women murdered or disappeared expose feminicide as a complexly-layered social problem that demands urgent action. Insightful conceptual introductions by editors Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, and by feminist activist\/academic\/politician Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos, are followed by useful analyses and concrete suggestions aimed at stopping feminicide and advancing justice.” -- Barbara Sutton * International Feminist Journal of Politics *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he range of Latin American and trans-border authors and disciplinary perspectives . . . combine to convey a sense of informed and urgent feminist debate. If one insight can be distilled from the case studies and scholarly analyses, it comes from Julia Huamanahui. As her brother-in-law rapes her he gloats: ‘Even if you scream, no one will hear you’. Years later, abandoning hope of legal recourse for her pregnant sister’s brutal murder, for which the husband is the only suspect, Julia concludes: ‘I think that for a person who is poor, there is no justice’. This book offers some possible alternatives to such lonely terror.” -- Deborah Eade * Gender and Development *\u003cbr\u003e“Fregoso and Bejarano seek to introduce a human rights framework to our understanding of misogynistic murders. . . . The book makes the point that feminicide must be analysed within local and global networks of complicity. . . . The great value I see in this book is that it extends the conversation about femicide\/feminicide beyond Mexico and into the rest of the Americas.” -- Alicia Gaspar de Alba * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide: Theoretical, Political, and Legal Construction \/ Marcela Lagarede y de los Ríos xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. A Cartography of Feminicide in the Américas \/ Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Localizing Feminicide \u003cbr\u003e Testimonio: Eva Arce 45\u003cbr\u003e Violencia Feminicida: Violence against Women and Mexico's Structural Crisis \/ Mercedes Olivera 49\u003cbr\u003e The Victims of Cuidad Juárez Feminicide: Sexually Fetishized Commodities \/ Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso 59\u003cbr\u003e Territory, Sovereignty, and the Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women \/ Rita Laura Segato 70\u003cbr\u003e Getting Away with Murder: Guatemala's Failure to Protect Women and Rodi Alvarado's Quest for Safety \/ Angélica Cházaro, Jennifer Casey, and Katherine Ruhl 93\u003cbr\u003e Femicides in Mar de Plata \/ Marta Fontenla 116\u003cbr\u003e Femicide and Sexual Violence in Guatemala \/ Hilda Morales Trujillo 127\u003cbr\u003e When Violence against Women Kills: Femicide in Costa Rica, 1990–99 \/ Montserrat Sagot and Ana Carcedo Cabañas 138\u003cbr\u003e Feminicide in Latin America in the Movement for Women's Human Rights \/ Adriana Carmona López, Alma Gómez Caballero, and Lucha Castro Rodríguez 157\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Transnationalizing Justice \u003cbr\u003e Testimonio: Julia Huamañahui 179\u003cbr\u003e Obedience without Compliance: The Role of the Government, Organized Crime, and NGOs in the System of Impunity That Murders the Women of Cuidad Juárez \/ Héctor Domíguez-Ruvalcaba and Patricia Ravelo Blancas 182\u003cbr\u003e Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Cuidad Juárez \/ William Paul Simmons and Rebecca Coplan 197\u003cbr\u003e Global Economics and Their Progenies: Theorizing Femicide in Context \/ Deborah M. Weissman 225\u003cbr\u003e Searching for Accountability on the Border: Justice for the Women of Cuidad Juárez \/ Christina Iturralde 243\u003cbr\u003e Photo Essay: Images from the Justice Movement in Chihuahua, Mexico 263\u003cbr\u003e Part III. New Citizenship Practices \u003cbr\u003e Testimonio: Rosa Franco 273\u003cbr\u003e Cuidadana X: Gender Violence and the Denationalization of Women's Rights in Cuidad Juárez, Mexico \/ Alicia Schmidt Camacho 275\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFeminicidio\u003c\/i\u003e: Making the Most of an \"Empowered Term\" \/ Pascha Bueno-Hansen 290\u003cbr\u003e Paradoxes, Protests, and the Mujeres de Negro of Northern Mexico \/ Melissa W. Wright 312\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio: Norma Ledezma Ortega 331\u003cbr\u003e References 335\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 367\u003cbr\u003e Index 371","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406058824023,"sku":"9780822346814","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822346814.jpg?v=1730494392","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/terrorizing-women-9780822346814","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}