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

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

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Summary
"The U.S.-Mexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is nota new perception. For decades the border has been constructed as a topographic metaphor for all forms of illegality, in which an ineffable link between space and violence is somehow assumed. The sociological and cultural implications of violence have recently emerged at the forefront of academic discussions about the border. Yet few studies have been devoted to one of its most disturbing manifestations: gender violence. This book analyzes this pervasive phenomenon, including the femicides in Ciudad Juarez that have come to exemplify, at least for the media, its most extreme manifestation." "Contributors to this volume propose that the study of gender-motivated violence requires interpretive and analytical strategies that draw on methods reaching across the divide between the social sciences and the humanities. Through such an interdisciplinary conversation, the book examines how such violence is (re)presented in oral narratives, newspaper reports, films and documentaries, novels, TV series, and legal discourse. It also examines the role that the media have played in this process, as well as the legal initiatives that might address this pressing social problem." "Together these essays offer a new perspective on the implications of, and connections among, gendered forms of violence and topics such as mechanisms of social violence; the micro-social effects of economic models; the asymmetries of power in local, national, and transnational configurations; and the particular rhetoric, aesthetics, and ethics of discourses that represent violence."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource ([vii], 200 pages)
Contents
  • 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
  • Gender violence : an introduction
  • Ignacio Corona and Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
  • 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
Isbn
9780816501120
Instance
Label
Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border : media representation and public response
Title
Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border
Title remainder
media representation and public response
Statement of responsibility
edited by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"The U.S.-Mexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is nota new perception. For decades the border has been constructed as a topographic metaphor for all forms of illegality, in which an ineffable link between space and violence is somehow assumed. The sociological and cultural implications of violence have recently emerged at the forefront of academic discussions about the border. Yet few studies have been devoted to one of its most disturbing manifestations: gender violence. This book analyzes this pervasive phenomenon, including the femicides in Ciudad Juarez that have come to exemplify, at least for the media, its most extreme manifestation." "Contributors to this volume propose that the study of gender-motivated violence requires interpretive and analytical strategies that draw on methods reaching across the divide between the social sciences and the humanities. Through such an interdisciplinary conversation, the book examines how such violence is (re)presented in oral narratives, newspaper reports, films and documentaries, novels, TV series, and legal discourse. It also examines the role that the media have played in this process, as well as the legal initiatives that might address this pressing social problem." "Together these essays offer a new perspective on the implications of, and connections among, gendered forms of violence and topics such as mechanisms of social violence; the micro-social effects of economic models; the asymmetries of power in local, national, and transnational configurations; and the particular rhetoric, aesthetics, and ethics of discourses that represent violence."--Jacket
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Cataloging source
E7B
Dewey number
362.88
Index
index present
LC call number
HV6250.4.W65
LC item number
G475 2010eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
Online Book
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1962-
  • 1960-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Héctor
  • Corona, Ignacio
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Women
  • Gays
  • Cross-dressers
  • Transgender people
  • Murder
  • Mass media and crime
  • Mexico
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Gays
  • Mass media and crime
  • Murder
  • Cross-dressers
  • Women
  • Mexico
  • Mexico
  • Gewalt
  • Homosexualität
  • Massenmedien
  • Staatsgrenze
  • Transvestitismus
  • Mexiko
  • Frau
  • USA
Label
Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border : media representation and public response, edited by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 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
  • Gender violence : an introduction
  • Ignacio Corona and Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
  • 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
Control code
759160542
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource ([vii], 200 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780816501120
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
ebc3411745
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt181gr4p
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)759160542
Label
Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border : media representation and public response, edited by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 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
  • Gender violence : an introduction
  • Ignacio Corona and Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
  • 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
Control code
759160542
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource ([vii], 200 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780816501120
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
ebc3411745
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt181gr4p
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)759160542

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