Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women : Media Coverage of Violence Against Women in Guatemala.

Cover -- Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women -- Series page -- Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Organizations and Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Framing the Problem -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Defining the Terms: Violence against Women, Femicide, Feminicide, and Gender Violence -- Book Overview -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Violence against Women in the Media -- Media Frames -- Media Frames and VAW -- The Guatemalan Context -- The Newspapers -- The Sample -- Notes -- Part II: The Specter of Gendered Terrorism: A History of Violence and Violence against Women in Guatemala -- Chapter 3 -- A Good Place to Commit Murder -- Internal Armed Conflict -- Post-conflict Guatemala: War by other Means -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- The War against Women -- Gendered Terrorism -- Note -- Chapter 5 -- The Growth of the Women's Movement and Challenges to the Patriarchal State -- History of the Women's Movement in Guatemala -- Legislative Reforms -- The Cultural Politics of VAW -- Notes -- Part III: Talk of Crime and Narratives of Terror Written on Women's Bodies: Blaming Gangs and Delinquents -- Chapter 6 -- Visible Violence, Invisible Assassins -- "La Violencia" during and after the Conflict -- Direct Attacks and Macabre Discoveries -- Weapons and Signs on the Body -- The Spacialization of Violence -- Invisible Killers -- Headlines -- Victims -- Motives -- Counting the Dead -- Comments from the public -- Prensa Libre -- Chapter 7 -- "Easy Targets," "Cannon Fodder," and the "Wrong Path" -- Frame #1: Blanco fácil (Easy Targets) -- Frame #2 Malos Pasos (The Wrong Path) -- Frame #3 Carne DE Cañon (Cannon Fodder) -- Reportajes -- Part IV: Blaming the Patriarchal Family and State -- Chapter 8 -- "Violence Lies in wait for Women at Home".

Intimate Partners and the Home are the most Dangerous People and Places for Women -- Overview of the Sample -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- "For no apparent reason," "in a drunken state," "blinded by jealousy," "after an argument," and Other Stories of "love gone wrong" that Frame Domestic Violence Reports -- Frame #1 Sin razón ninguna (for no apparent reason) -- Frame #2 En estado DE ebriedad (in a drunken state) -- Frame #3 Tras una discusión (After an argument) -- Frame # 4 Cegado por los celos (blinded by jealousy) -- Frame #5 Domestic Violence as a social problem -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- From Genocide to Feminicide -- The Culture of Machismo and the Patriarchal Family -- Ending the "culture of silence" and creating a "culture of reporting" -- Impunity and Unfulfilled Promises -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

This book analyzes the scope and dynamics of violence against women in Guatemala as well as how it is represented in the print media. It reveals the ways in which these reports reproduce narratives of terror that conceal the gendered nature of violence against women and reproduce dichotomous gendered narratives of "good" and "bad" girls.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.