"More than 600 women and girls have been murdered and more than 1,000 have disappeared in the Mexican state of Chihuahua since 1993. Violence against women has increased throughout Mexico and in other countries, including Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Peru. Law enforcement officials have often failed or refused to undertake investigations and prosecutions, creating a climate of impunity for perpetrators and denying truth and just ..."
The Force of Witness Contra Feminicide (Paperback or Softback) by Rosa-LindaFregoso Paperback, Published 2023 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1981-7, ISBN: 1-4780-1981-6
"In The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence."
"The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists conte ..."
"In her essay on the murder and disappearance of prostitutes in Mar del Plata
Argentina, Marta Fontenla points to the direct involvement of police authorities in
networks of prostitution and the human-tra≈cking industry and the corruption of
the criminal justice system in investigating and prosecuting the crimes. Similar to
Fontenla, Hilda Morales Trujillo roots violence against women in the historical
structure of impunity, legacy ..."
"InBetween Woman and Nation constructions such as nationalism, homeland, country, region, and locality are for the first time examined in the context of gender. The contributorsâleading scholars of ethnicity, transnationalism, globalization, and feminist theoryâare united in their determination to locate and describe the performative space of interactions between woman and nation. These are interactions, claim the contributors, that ..."
"InBetween Woman and Nation constructions such as nationalism, homeland, country, region, and locality are for the first time examined in the context of gender. The contributors—leading scholars of ethnicity, transnationalism, globalization, and feminist theory—are united in their determination to locate and describe the performative space of interactions between woman and nation. These are interactions, claim the contributors, that cann ..."
American Crossroads Ser.(1st Edition) Mexicana Encounters - The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands 12 by RosaLindaFregoso Hardcover, 238 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22997-6, ISBN: 0-520-22997-5