{"product_id":"the-force-of-witness-9781478019817","title":"The Force of Witness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Force of Witness\u003c\/i\u003e Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Fregoso traces the micro and macro scales of misogyny and the patterns of state complicity with gender violence. She shows how different forms of witnessing—from activist-mothers’ bearing witness to the memories of their daughters and expert witnesses in court cases to communal witnessing and a scholar-activist-citizen witnessing her own actions—are key to resisting feminicidal violence. Fregoso situates these forms of witness in the histories, contexts, structures, bodies, and intersectional struggles they emerge from. By outlining the complexities of feminicidal violence in relation to witnessing processes, Fregoso challenges the notion of witness as an individual or autonomous subject inscribed solely in the legal or religious arenas. Rather,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fregoso masterfully and poignantly combines theory, scholarship, and activism in this volume, thereby bearing witness and accompanying others in their struggles for justice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.\" -- I. Coronado * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Prelude  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Chronicles of Witness  13\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 1: Re-Memory for the Dead  58\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mexico’s Longest War  63\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Artist and Witness  96\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 2: Redressing Injustice  115\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Art of Witness  119\u003cbr\u003e 5. Witnesses to Mexico’s “Living Dead”  138\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 3: Flor de Arena  159\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stolen Lives and Fugitivity  163\u003cbr\u003e Postlude  183\u003cbr\u003e Notes  185\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  211\u003cbr\u003e Index  229","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409012007255,"sku":"9781478019817","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019817.jpg?v=1730505086","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-force-of-witness-9781478019817","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}