| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 419 pages) |
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Latin American gender and sexualities |
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Latin American gender and sexualities.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Violence against women in the media |
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A good place to commit murder -- The war against women -- The growth of the women's movement and challenges to the patriarchal state -- Visible violence, invisible assassins: "necrographic maps" and terror in Guatemalan murder reports -- "Easy targets," "cannon fodder," and the "wrong path" -- "Violence lies in wait for women at home": framing VAW as domestic violence -- "For no apparent reason," "in a drunken state," "blinded by jealousy," "after an argument," and other stories of "love gone wrong" that frame domestic violence reports -- From genocide to feminicide: blaming patriarchy, impunity, and the state for VAW |
| Summary |
Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala analyzes the scope and dynamics of violence against women in Guatemala and how it is represented in the print media. Using nearly two thousand Guatemalan newspaper reports covering murders and assaults on women, this book contextualizes violence against women within the history of violence in Guatemala; gender ideologies and patriarchal social structures; and the contemporary demands of the women's movement for social and legislative change. It shows that while some newspapers cover violence against women with investigative reports and editorials that use feminist analysis and language, these are overshadowed by the large number of individual reports that reproduce narratives of terror and conceal the gendered nature of violence against women by suggesting that "delinquents," "gangs," "unknown men," and inexplicably violent husbands are the main culprits, while simultaneously upholding dichotomous gendered narratives of "good" and "bad" wives and daughters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Violence against -- Guatemala
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Women -- Guatemala -- Social conditions
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Violence -- Press coverage -- Guatemala
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Women -- Press coverage -- Guatemala
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Violence -- Press coverage
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Women -- Press coverage
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Women -- Social conditions
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Women -- Violence against
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Guatemala
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Guatemala.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781498530804 |
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149853080X |
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