Gender Violence at the U.S.–Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Gender Violence: An Introduction Ignacio Corona and Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba 1 Part I Oral Testimonies on Gender Violence 1 Violence and Transvestite/Transgender Sex Workers in Tijuana Debra A. Castillo, María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, and Armando Rosas Solís 14 2 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 Patricia Ravelo Blancas 35 Part II Audiovisual Representations of Gender Violence 3 Death on the Screen: Imagining Violence in Border Media Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba 60 4 Representations of Femicide in Border Cinema María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba 79 Part III Representations of Gender Violence in the Print Media 5 Over Their Dead Bodies: Reading the Newspapers on Gender Violence Ignacio Corona 104 Contents 6 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 Miguel López-Lozano 128 Part IV The Legal Status of Femicides 7 ¡Alto a la Impunidad! Is There Legal Relief for the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez? James C. Harrington 154 References 177 About the Contributors 193 Index 197 ...