{"product_id":"women-and-migration-in-the-u-s-mexico-borderlands-9780822340973","title":"Women and Migration in the U.S.Mexico Borderlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen's migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This title analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A deeply felt and thoroughly researched work, \u003ci\u003eWomen and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e brings together some of the most important feminist voices in the field of immigration and transnational studies. I think Gloria Anzaldúa would have been proud to see how the authors of this book took her concept of the borderlands and grounded it ethnographically in the sorrows, struggles, and dreams of contemporary Chicana and Mexican women. A timely and courageous book that speaks to the major issue of our time—the search for home across and between and despite borders.”—Ruth Behar, author of \u003ci\u003eTranslated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Denise A. Segura and Patricia Zavella have compiled a spectacular collection on gender, migration, sexuality, work, and family. Timely, provocative, and imaginative, the essays in \u003ci\u003eWomen and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e will become essential readings across a variety of (inter)disciplines: Latina\/o studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, Latin American studies, American studies, urban planning, and public policy.”—Vicki Ruiz, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] worthy and much-needed contribution to debates about women, gender, and migration in the borderlands, which, as the editors point out, remains understudied, displaced, or at times simply ignored. Also notable is the interdisciplinary nature of the compilation, which brings a number of significant contributions into a shared space and thus sets a precedent for further interdisciplinary dialogue. . . . The interdisciplinary mix makes the book attractive to a variety of academic fields such as political science and international relations, Chicana\/o studies, Latin American and Latino studies, border studies, sociology, and human geography . . . . It is certainly a valuable contribution to studies of women and\/or the U.S.-Mexican borderlands in each of these disciplines.” -- Marie Woodling * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“This collection is important not only because it sites gender front and center but also because it adds flesh and bone to the borderlands concept by bringing a series of issues into discussion: cultural representations; identity construction and reconstruction; structural, personal, and symbolic violence; sexuality; popular culture; transnational social networks; and marriage and motherhood.” -- Lynn Stephen * Latin American Research Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Series ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Borderlands as Site of Struggle \u003cbr\u003e Toward a Planetary Civil Society \/ Rosa Linda Fregoso 35\u003cbr\u003e A Glass Half Empty: Latina Reproduction and Public Discourse \/ Leo R. Chavez 67\u003cbr\u003e Illegal Status and Social Citizenship: Thoughts on Mexican Immigrants in a Postnational World \/ Adelaida R. Del Castillo 92\u003cbr\u003e “Looking Like a Lesbian”: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States-Mexican Border \/ Eithne Luibheid 106\u003cbr\u003e The Value of Immigrant Life \/ Jonathan Xavier India 134\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Topography of Violence \u003cbr\u003e Manufacturing Sexual Subjects: “Harassment,” Desire, and Discipline on a Maquiladora Shopfloor \/ Leslie Salzinger 161\u003cbr\u003e The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras \/ Melissa W. Wright 184\u003cbr\u003e Rape as a Weapon of War: Militarized Rape at the US-Mexico Border \/ Sylvanna M. Falcon 203\u003cbr\u003e “Nunca he dejada de tener terror”: Sexual Violence in the Lives of Mexican Immigrant Women \/ Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez 224\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Flexible Accumulation and Resistance \u003cbr\u003e Changing Constructions of Sexuality and Risk: Migrant Mexican Women Farmworkers in California \/ Xochitl Castaneda and Patricia Zavella 249\u003cbr\u003e Space, Gender, and Work: Home-Based Workers in Mexico \/ Faranak Miraftab 269\u003cbr\u003e Mexican Immigrant Women and the New Domestic Labor \/ Maria de la Luz Ibarra 286\u003cbr\u003e “Aqui estamos y no nos vamos” Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and New Citizenship Claims \/ Cynthia Cranford 306\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Family Formations and Transnational Social Networks \u003cbr\u003e Transborder Families and Gendered Trajectories of Migration and Work \/ Norma Ojeda de la Pena 327\u003cbr\u003e Women, Migration, and Household Survival Strategies: Mixtec Women in Tijuana \/ Laura Velasco Ortiz 341\u003cbr\u003e Single-Parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-Headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns \/ Sylvia Chant 360\u003cbr\u003e Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment \/ Denise A. Segura 368\u003cbr\u003e “I’m Here, but I’m There”: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood \/ Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila 388\u003cbr\u003e Part 5. Transculturation and Identity in Daily Life \u003cbr\u003e Reproduction of Gender Relations in the Mexican Migrant Community of New Rochelle, New York \/ Victoria Malkan 415\u003cbr\u003e “En el norte la mujer manda”: Gender, Generation, and Geography in a Mexican Transnational Community \/ Jennifer S. Hirsch 438\u003cbr\u003e Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song \/ Olga Najera-Ramirez 456\u003cbr\u003e Becoming Selena, Becoming Latina \/ Deborah Paredez 477\u003cbr\u003e Cyberbrides and Global Imaginaries: Mexican Women’s Turn from the National to the Foreign \/ Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel 503\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 521\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 585\u003cbr\u003e Index 587","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406048338263,"sku":"9780822340973","price":100.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822340973.jpg?v=1730494359","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-and-migration-in-the-u-s-mexico-borderlands-9780822340973","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}