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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Gender Violence: An Introduction 10 1. Violence and Transvestite/Transgender Sex Workers in Tijuana 22 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 Ju 43 3. Death on the Screen: Imagining Violence in Border Media 67 4. Representations of Femicide in Border Cinema 86 5. Over Their Dead Bodies: Reading the Newspapers on Gender Violence 110 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 134 7. 159 References 182 About the Contributors 198 Index 202 Publisher:University of Arizona Press,Published:2010,ISBN:9780816501120,Related ISBN:9780816527120,Language:English,OCLC:759160542 The U.S.–Mexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is not a 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

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Author

Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816527120

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, True Crime, Crime