
Enduring Violence
Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala
Cecilia Menjivar(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2011
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-520-26766-4 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjivar 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, Menjivar 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, Menjivar 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.
Reviews / Votes
"This study is rich... Makes an important contribution." The Americas "The books shows how years after the war's end, echoes of its large-scale violence continue to blight the lives of Guatemala's most vulnerable, especially the poor, and especially women." -- Aviva Chomsky ReVistaMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-26766-4 (9780520267664)
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E-Book
04/2011
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€33.99
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Person
Cecilia Menjivar is Cowden Distinguished Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. She is the author of Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (UC Press), among other books. Menjivar won the Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award from the Latino/a Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.
Content
Acknowledgments 1. Approaching Violence in Eastern Guatemala 2. A Framework for Examining Violence 3. Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman's Self and Body 4. Marital Unions and the Normalization of Suffering 5. Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice 6. Women's Work: Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality 7. Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence 8. Enduring Violence Notes References Index