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Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera (Chicana Matters Series)
Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well. Thousands more have been reported missing and remain unaccounted for. The crimes have been poorly investigated and have gone unpunished and unresolved by Mexican authorities, thus c...more
Paperback, 315 pages
Published
November 15th 2010
by University of Texas Press
(first published November 1st 2010)
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Before I read this book I already knew about the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. This is a book with analyses that shines some light on the mysterious femicides and sexual assaults that women in Juarez have been facing. Every author who wrote a chapter for this book points to the important factor of gender; something that plays a big part in every society and in this case seems to be one of the underlying motives for the femicides. The perpetrators are still unknown, but I hope this book giv...more
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