Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border [electronic resource] : media representation and public response / edited by H�ector Dom�inguez-Ruvalcaba and Ignacio Corona.

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

Gender violence : an introduction / Ignacio Corona and H�ector Dom�inguez-Ruvalcaba -- Violence and transvestite/transgender sex workers in Tijuana / Debra A. Castillo, Mar�ia Gudelia Rangel G�omez, and Armando Rosas Sol�is -- 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�arez / Patricia Ravelo Blancas -- Death on the screen : imagining violence in border media / H�ector Dom�inguez-Ruvalcaba -- Representations of femicide in border cinema / Mar�ia Socorro Tabuenca C�ordoba -- Over their dead bodies : reading newspapers on gender violence / Ignacio Corona -- Women in the global machine : Patrick Bard's La frontera, Carmen Gal�an Benitez's Tierra marchita, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood : the Ju�arez murders / Miguel L�opez-Lozano -- �Alto a la impunidad! Is there legal relief for the murders of women in Ciudad Ju�arez? / James C. Harrington.

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