Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border media representation and public response / [electronic resource] : edited by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona. - Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2010. - [vii], 200 p.

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

Gender violence : an introduction / Violence and transvestite/transgender sex workers in Tijuana / 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 / Death on the screen : imagining violence in border media / Representations of femicide in border cinema / 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 / ¡Alto a la impunidad! Is there legal relief for the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez? / Ignacio Corona and Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba -- Debra A. Castillo, María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, and Armando Rosas Solís -- Patricia Ravelo Blancas -- Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba -- María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba -- Over their dead bodies : reading newspapers on gender violence / Ignacio Corona -- Miguel López-Lozano -- James C. Harrington.


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2011.
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Women--Crimes against--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.
Gays--Crimes against--Mexico.
Transvestites--Crimes against--Mexico.
Murder--Mexico.
Mass media and crime--Mexico.


Electronic books.

HV6250.4.W65 / G475 2010eb

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