Gender Violence at the U. S. -Mexico Border : Media Representation and Public Response.
Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Héctor.
Gender Violence at the U. S. -Mexico Border : Media Representation and Public Response. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Gender Violence: An Introduction -- Part I: Oral Testimonies on Gender Violence -- 1. Violence and Transvestite/Transgender Sex Workers in Tijuana -- 2. We Never Thought It Would Happen to Us: Approaches to the Study of the Subjectivities of the Mothers of the Murdered Women of Ciudad Juárez -- Part II: Audiovisual Representations of Gender Violence -- 3. Death on the Screen: Imagining Violence in Border Media -- 4. Representations of Femicide in Border Cinema -- Part III: Representations of Gender Violence in the Print Media -- 5. Over Their Dead Bodies: Reading the Newspapers on Gender Violence -- 6. Women in the Global Machine: Patrick Bard's La frontera, Carmen Galán Benitez's Tierra marchita, and Alicia Gasparde Alba's Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders -- Part IV: The Legal Status of Femicides -- 7. ¡Alto a la Impunidad! Is There Legal Relief for the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez? -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index.
9780816501120
Women-Crimes against-Mexico-Ciudad Juárez.
Gays-Crimes against-Mexico.
Cross-dressers-Crimes against-Mexico.
Murder-Mexico.
Mass media and crime-Mexico.
Electronic books.
HV6250
Gender Violence at the U. S. -Mexico Border : Media Representation and Public Response. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Gender Violence: An Introduction -- Part I: Oral Testimonies on Gender Violence -- 1. Violence and Transvestite/Transgender Sex Workers in Tijuana -- 2. We Never Thought It Would Happen to Us: Approaches to the Study of the Subjectivities of the Mothers of the Murdered Women of Ciudad Juárez -- Part II: Audiovisual Representations of Gender Violence -- 3. Death on the Screen: Imagining Violence in Border Media -- 4. Representations of Femicide in Border Cinema -- Part III: Representations of Gender Violence in the Print Media -- 5. Over Their Dead Bodies: Reading the Newspapers on Gender Violence -- 6. Women in the Global Machine: Patrick Bard's La frontera, Carmen Galán Benitez's Tierra marchita, and Alicia Gasparde Alba's Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders -- Part IV: The Legal Status of Femicides -- 7. ¡Alto a la Impunidad! Is There Legal Relief for the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez? -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index.
9780816501120
Women-Crimes against-Mexico-Ciudad Juárez.
Gays-Crimes against-Mexico.
Cross-dressers-Crimes against-Mexico.
Murder-Mexico.
Mass media and crime-Mexico.
Electronic books.
HV6250