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Violence and activism at the border : gender, fear, and everyday life in Ciudad Juárez
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- Creator
- Kathleen Staudt
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008
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- Physical Details
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- xvi, 184 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780292716704, 0292716702, 0292718241, 0292794355, 9780292794351, 9780292718241
- OCLC
- ocn648336527, ocn646793556, on1286807519, ocn173299126
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-178) and index.
- 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
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.