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Gender Violence at the U. S. -Mexico Border : Media Representation and Public Response.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816501120
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender Violence at the U. S. -Mexico BorderLOC classification:
  • HV6250
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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