Making a Killing

Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera

Author: Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Secondary Author: Georgina Guzmán
ISBN: 9780292723177

Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez 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 creating an epidemic of misogynist violence on an increasingly globalized U.S.-Mexico border.This book, the first anthology to focus exclusively on the Juárez femicides, as the crimes have come to be known, compiles several different scholarly "interventions" from diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis. Editor Alicia Gaspar de Alba shapes a multidisciplinary analytical framework for considering the interconnections between gender, violence, and the U.S.-Mexico border. The essays examine the social and cultural conditions that have led to the heinous vi

Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publish Date: 2010-11-15

Subjects: Social Science / Violence in Society

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Latinx/Chicanx)