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Enduring violence : Ladina women's lives in Guatemala / / Cecilia Menjívar



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Autore: Menjívar Cecilia Visualizza persona
Titolo: Enduring violence : Ladina women's lives in Guatemala / / Cecilia Menjívar Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages)
Disciplina: 305.48/969420972814
Soggetto topico: Women - Guatemala - Social conditions
Women - Violence against - Guatemala
Ladino (Latin American people) - Violence against - Guatemala
Violence - Guatemala
Soggetto non controllato: anthropology
asylum
catholicism
criminology
exploitation
female survivors
female victims
feminicide
gender inequality
gender norms
gender roles
gender studies
gender
guatemala
immigration
inequality
institutional violence
ladina
latin america
latina
microaggressions
migration
political violence
poverty
refugee
religion
sexuality
structural violence
underdeveloped countries
violence against women
violence
vulnerability
women
womens studies
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-272) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- U.N. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Approaching Violence in Eastern Guatemala -- Chapter 2. A Framework for Examining Violence -- Chapter 3. Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman's Self and Body -- Chapter 4. Marital Unions and the Normalization of Suffering -- Chapter 5. Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice -- Chapter 6. Women's Work Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality -- Chapter 7. Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence -- Chapter 8. Enduring Violence -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a different form of suffering-the violence embedded in institutions and in everyday life so familiar and routine that it is often not recognized as such. Rather than painting Guatemala (or even Latin America) as having a cultural propensity for normalizing and accepting violence, Menjívar aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence-profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situations- grounded in women's experiences. In this way, her study provides a glimpse into the root causes of the increasing wave of feminicide in Guatemala, as well as in other Latin American countries, and offers observations relevant for understanding violence against women around the world today.
Titolo autorizzato: Enduring violence  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-29180-0
9786613291806
0-520-94841-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813179803321
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