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Title:

Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border : media representation and public response / edited by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

[vii], 200 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Crimes against--Ciudad Juárez.--Ciudad Juárez.
Gays--Crimes against--Mexico.
Transvestites--Crimes against--Mexico.
Murder--Mexico.
Mass media and crime--Mexico.

Other Authors:

Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Héctor, 1962-
Corona, Ignacio, 1960-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-191) and index.

Contents:

¡Alto a la impunidad! Is there legal relief for the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez? / James C. Harrington. Violence and transvestite/transgender sex workers in Tijuana / Debra A. Castillo, María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, and Armando Rosas Solís -- 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 / Patricia Ravelo Blancas -- Death on the screen : imagining violence in border media / Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba -- Representations of femicide in border cinema / María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba -- Over their dead bodies : reading newspapers on gender violence / Ignacio Corona -- Women in the global machine : Patrick Bard's La frontera, Carmen Galán Benitez's Tierra marchita, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood : the Juárez murders / Miguel López-Lozano -- ¡Alto a la impunidad! Is there legal relief for the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez? / James C. Harrington.

ISBN:

0816527121 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9780816527120 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)454369468

LCCN:

2009039564

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)