Enduring violence [electronic resource] : Ladina women's lives in Guatemala / Cecilia Menjívar.
2011
HQ1477 .M46 2011eb
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Title
Enduring violence [electronic resource] : Ladina women's lives in Guatemala / Cecilia Menjívar.
Author
Menjívar, Cecilia.
ISBN
9780520948419 (electronic bk.)
9780520267664
0520267664
9780520267671 (pbk.)
0520267672 (pbk.)
9780520267664
0520267664
9780520267671 (pbk.)
0520267672 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 288 p.)
Call Number
HQ1477 .M46 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48/969420972814
Summary
Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, the author 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, the author 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, she 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-272) and index.
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Table of Contents
Approaching Violence in Eastern Guatemala
A Framework for Examining Violence
Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman's Self and Body
Marital Unions and the Normalization of Suffering
Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice
Women's Work: Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality
Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence
Enduring Violence.
A Framework for Examining Violence
Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman's Self and Body
Marital Unions and the Normalization of Suffering
Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice
Women's Work: Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality
Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence
Enduring Violence.