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Making a Killing

Author : Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029272277X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Making a Killing written by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well. Thousands more have been reported missing and remain unaccounted for. The crimes have been poorly investigated and have gone unpunished and unresolved by Mexican authorities, thus creating an epidemic of misogynist violence on an increasingly globalized U.S.-Mexico border. This book, the first anthology to focus exclusively on the Juárez femicides, as the crimes have come to be known, compiles several different scholarly "interventions" from diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis. Editor Alicia Gaspar de Alba shapes a multidisciplinary analytical framework for considering the interconnections between gender, violence, and the U.S.-Mexico border. The essays examine the social and cultural conditions that have led to the heinous victimization of women on the border—from globalization, free trade agreements, exploitative maquiladora working conditions, and border politics, to the sexist attitudes that pervade the social discourse about the victims. The book also explores the evolving social movement that has been created by NGOs, mothers' organizing efforts, and other grassroots forms of activism related to the crimes. Contributors include U.S. and Mexican scholars and activists, as well as personal testimonies of two mothers of femicide victims.

The Daughters of JuÃ¡rez

Author : Teresa Rodríguez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743292030
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Daughters of JuÃ¡rez written by Teresa Rodríguez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang2057\fs18 For the last nine years, the city of Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico has been the centre of an ongoing phenomenon of female homicides, referenced in Spanish as femicidios or las muertas de Juarez ("the dead women of Juarez"). As of February 2005 more than 370 bodies have been recovered, with over 400 women still missing, according to Amnesty International. The BBC News reported in November 2005 that 28 women had been murdered so far in 2005. \par \par As for who is behind the murders, the answer remains unknown. Despite numerous arrests over the last few years, the killings continue, leading the Mexican police and the general public to consider many theories, among them that the original killer or killers are in jail and copycats have moved to the area since. Furthermore, there has been speculation that there has been a conspiracy of silence and cover-up by Mexican politicians. \par \par \i\fs20 Daughters of Juarez\i0\fs18 will be the first, major non-fiction work to examine the Juarez murders. In it, authors Rodriguez, Montane and Pulitzer will focus on retelling the stories of three missing women and of their families' plight to find the responsible killer or killers. As this story begins to land on the front pages of national papers such as \i\fs20 The New York Times\i0\fs18, this book will become a staple of required reading on the case for years to come. \par }

The Making of Victims in Ciudad Juárez

Author : Karla Cristina Pérez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Victims in Ciudad Juárez written by Karla Cristina Pérez and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Violence Against Women and Femicide in Mexico

Author : Natalie Panther
Publisher : VDM Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Violence Against Women and Femicide in Mexico written by Natalie Panther and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Woman-killing in Juarez

Author : Rafael Luvano
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331121
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Woman-killing in Juarez written by Rafael Luvano and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling analysis of the killing of over 500 women in Ju rez to help readers understand the presence of suffering and evil. Making expert use of narrative theology, Prof. Lu vano uses the killing of over 500 women since 1993 in Ciudad Ju rez as a lens to examine and attempt to understand the role that suffering plays in God's love and relationship with humankind. The first three chapters that form Part I describe events in northern Mexico that provide the context for the killing of young women. The five chapters in the second part examine different themes within the broad context of theodicy the nature of God, the traditional teaching of the church, and contemporary theological approaches to human suffering (e.g., Soelle, Wiesel, Moltman).

Harvest of Women

Author : Diana Washington Valdez
Publisher : Peace
ISBN 13 : 9781424312887
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Harvest of Women written by Diana Washington Valdez and published by Peace. This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative book exposes the murders and disappearances of hundreds of girls and women in Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas. Victims were relatively young women from poor families who were kidnapped, raped, mutilated and killed. During the investigation, people are threatened and killed. Journalist Diana Washington Valdez reveals the powerful interests behind the deaths, including drug cartels and corrupt police. Contains exclusive interviews with U.S. and Mexican intelligence and law enforcement officials. A U.S. Congressional delegation had to get involved to pressure the Mexican government to put an end to the horrific crimes that spread throughout that country.

The Femicide Machine

Author : Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1584351101
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book The Femicide Machine written by Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account and analysis of the systematic murder of women and girls in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez. In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn't just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guarantee impunity for those crimes and even legalize them. A lawless city sponsored by a State in crisis. The facts speak for themselves. —from The Femicide Machine Best known to American readers for his cameo appearances as The Journalist in Roberto Bolano's 2666 and as a literary detective in Javier Marías's novel Dark Back of Time, Sergio González Rodríguez is one of Mexico's most important contemporary writers. He is the author of Bones in the Desert, the most definitive work on the murders of women and girls in Juárez, Mexico, as well as The Headless Man, a sharp meditation on the recurrent uses of symbolic violence; Infectious, a novel; and Original Evil, a long essay. The Femicide Machine is the first book by González Rodríguez to appear in English translation. Written especially for Semiotext(e) Intervention series, The Femicide Machine synthesizes González Rodríguez's documentation of the Juárez crimes, his analysis of the unique urban conditions in which they take place, and a discussion of the terror techniques of narco-warfare that have spread to both sides of the border. The result is a gripping polemic. The Femicide Machine probes the anarchic confluence of global capital with corrupt national politics and displaced, transient labor, and introduces the work of one of Mexico's most eminent writers to American readers.

The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez

Author : Farjeon Clanash Farjeon
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426928238
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez written by Farjeon Clanash Farjeon and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The First World and the Third World are the bread in this sandwich and we are the baloney!" So a character describes the sprawling industrial war zone on the U.S.-Mexico border that is Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the drug trade, where the Third World comes to make what the First World wants. Hundreds of innocent young women have been abducted, raped, and murdered here, yet the mystery of "las desaparecidas" remains tragically unsolved. Into this smoldering devil's stew steps an eccentric English journalist, the sometime employee of an occult magazine in London that attempts "the rational examination of all irrational phenomena," on his way from Miami to Los Angeles by bus. One morning at dawn he wades absent-mindedly across the shallow trickle of the Rio Grande into Juarez while filming an enormous white Siberian tiger. He gets caught up in the madness of a very strange family and is lucky to escape with his life.

More or Less Dead

Author : Alice Driver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531161
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book More or Less Dead written by Alice Driver and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, people disappear, their bodies dumped in deserted city lots or jettisoned in the unforgiving desert. All too many of them are women. More or Less Dead analyzes how such violence against women has been represented in news media, books, films, photography, and art. Alice Driver argues that the various cultural reports often express anxiety or criticism about how women traverse and inhabit the geography of Ciudad Juárez and further the idea of the public female body as hypersexualized. Rather than searching for justice, the various media—art, photography, and even graffiti—often reuse victimized bodies in sensationalist, attention-grabbing ways. In order to counteract such views, local activists mark the city with graffiti and memorials that create a living memory of the violence and try to humanize the victims of these crimes. The phrase “more or less dead” was coined by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño in his novel 2666, a penetrating fictional study of Juárez. Driver explains that victims are “more or less dead” because their bodies are never found or aren’t properly identified, leaving families with an uncertainty lasting for decades—or forever. The author’s clear, precise journalistic style tackles the ethics of representing feminicide victims in Ciudad Juárez. Making a distinction between the words “femicide” (the murder of girls or women) and “feminicide” (murder as a gender-driven event), one of her interviewees says, “Women are killed for being women, and they are victims of masculine violence because they are women. It is a crime of hate against the female gender. These are crimes of power.”

Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border

Author : Nuala Finnegan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351058819
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border written by Nuala Finnegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, the repeated murders of women from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico have become something of a global cause célèbre. Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border examines creative responses to these acts of violence. It reveals how theatre, art, film, fiction and other popular cultural forms seek to remember and mourn the female victims of violent death in the city at the same time as they interrogate the political, legal and societal structures that produce the crimes. Different chapters examine the varying art forms to engage with Ciudad Juárez’s feminicidal wave. Finnegan discusses Àlex Rigola’s theatrical adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 by Teatre Lliure in Barcelona as well as painting about the victims of feminicidio by Irish painter Brian Maguire. There is analysis of documentary film about Ciudad Juárez, including Lourdes Portillo’s acclaimed Señorita Extraviada (2001). The final chapter turns its attention to writing about feminicide and examines testimonial and crime fiction narratives like the mystery novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, among other examples. By drawing on a range of artistic responses to the murders in Ciudad Juárez, Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border shows how art, film, theatre and fiction can unsettle official narratives about the crimes and undo the static paradigms that are frequently used to interpret them.

Violence and Activism at the Border

Author : Kathleen Staudt
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773439
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Violence and Activism at the Border written by Kathleen Staudt and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1993 and 2003, more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The murders have continued at a rate of approximately thirty per year, yet law enforcement officials have made no breakthroughs in finding the perpetrator(s). Drawing on in-depth surveys, workshops, and interviews of Juárez women and border activists, Violence and Activism at the Border provides crucial links between these disturbing crimes and a broader history of violence against women in Mexico. In addition, the ways in which local feminist activists used the Juárez murders to create international publicity and expose police impunity provides a unique case study of social movements in the borderlands, especially as statistics reveal that the rates of femicide in Juárez are actually similar to other regions of Mexico. Also examining how non-governmental organizations have responded in the face of Mexican law enforcement's "normalization" of domestic violence, Staudt's study is a landmark development in the realm of global human rights.

The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister

Author : Sandra Rodriguez Nieto
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784781061
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister written by Sandra Rodriguez Nieto and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly inexplicable triple murder, Sandra Rodríguez Nieto paints a haunting and unforgettable portrait of the most violent city on Earth, with an in-depth investigation into the thought process of the three boys, the city of Juárez and the drug cartels that wage war in its streets. This book explores how poverty, political corruption, incapacitated government institutions and US meddling combined to create the explosion of violence in Juárez. The product of years of tenacious reporting that have brought Sandra Rodríguez Nieto international acclaim, this book traces the rise of a national culture of extreme violence, and is a testament to the extraordinary bravery of a reporter.

Murder City

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568586221
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Murder City written by Charles Bowden and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants-a beauty queen who was raped, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life-with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north. Heartbreaking, disturbing, and unforgettable, Murder City was written at the height of his powers and established Bowden as one of America's leading journalists.

More or Less Dead

Author : Alice Driver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081650184X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Not One More!

Author : Nina Maria Lozano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814276754
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Not One More! written by Nina Maria Lozano and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Extends theories of new materialism to argue that capitalist systems of neoliberalism and free trade are correlated to the killing of women in Cuidad Juárez. Offers a rhetorical analysis of maquiladoras, free trade zones; public memorials; searches for victims' remains; and family testimony to reveal the socioeconomic and geopolitical forces at work in the Juárez femicides"--

Cinematographic and Literary Representations of the Femicides in Ciudad Juarez

Author : Olimpia Arellano-neri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Cinematographic and Literary Representations of the Femicides in Ciudad Juarez written by Olimpia Arellano-neri and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the border city of Ciudad Juarez, from 1993 to 2008, around 450 women (the exact number is unknown) were brutally murdered or simply disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Although the femicides have not stopped as of yet, the various patterns that characterized the femicides during this period have recently been overshadowed by a different type of murder which involves both men and women and which seems to occur during the daylight and in more public places. The large number of femicides has attracted international attention from groups ranging from human rights associations to individual authors working in different literary genres. The femicides and all the social conflicts that have been linked to them have yielded a vast production of literary and cinematographic pieces which attempt to represent the murders and the circumstances under which they took place. In this dissertation, six documentaries Senorita extraviada (2001), The City of Lost Girls (2003), The City of Dead Women (2005), Bajo Juarez (2006), On the Edge (2006), and Silencio en Juarez (2008); three fiction films Espejo retrovisor (2002), Bordertown (2006), and Traspatio (2009); and three novels Desert Blood (2005), 2666 (2004), and Las muertas de Ciudad Juarez: El caso de Elizabeth Castro Garcia y Abdel Latif Sharif Sharif (1999) are analyzed and compared. The ability of writers and filmmakers to use textual, aural and visual elements to reproduce the likeness of the reality before them is assessed, as well as the strategies employed to compel us to believe that that reality is indeed re-presented before us objectively. The comparison of the representation of the victims aims to answer two questions: whether or not an objective depiction of victims can be achieved without compromising their identity and individual value as human beings, and whether or not these femicides can be represented in a way that neither over-emphasizes nor ignores the implied violence or the socio-political circumstances under which these crimes happened. At the same time, comparison of the plots serves to answer another key question, namely that of the perceived causes of the femicides.

Downtown Juárez

Author : Howard Campbell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477323880
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Downtown Juárez written by Howard Campbell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least 200,000 people have died in Mexico’s so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn’t believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland economy are all factors. But none explains how violence in downtown Juárez has become heartbreakingly “normal.” A rigorous yet moving account, Downtown Juárez is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things. Even as Juárez’s elite northeast section thrives on the profits of multinational corporations, and law-abiding citizens across the city mobilize against crime and official malfeasance, downtown’s cantinas, barrios, and brothels are tyrannized by misery. Campbell’s is a chilling perspective, suggesting that, over time, violent acts feed off each other, losing their connection to any specific cause. Downtown Juárez documents this banality of evil—and confronts it—with the stories of those most affected.