The Force of Witness
Contra Feminicide
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2023
242 pages
978-1-4780-2438-5 (ISBN)
Description
Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence, theorizing the notion of witness as a force of collectivity and a constellation of multiple social locations and intersectional practices that work together to abolish feminicidal violence.
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Rosa-Linda Fregoso is Professor Emerita of Latin America and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, coeditor of Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, also published by Duke University Press, and author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Prelude 1
1. Chronicles of Witness 13
Interlude 1: Re-Memory for the Dead 58
2. Mexico's Longest War 63
3. The Artist and Witness 96
Interlude 2: Redressing Injustice 115
4. The Art of Witness 119
5. Witnesses to Mexico's "Living Dead" 138
Interlude 3: Flor de Arena 159
6. Stolen Lives and Fugitivity 163
Postlude 183
Notes 185
Bibliography 211
Index 229
Prelude 1
1. Chronicles of Witness 13
Interlude 1: Re-Memory for the Dead 58
2. Mexico's Longest War 63
3. The Artist and Witness 96
Interlude 2: Redressing Injustice 115
4. The Art of Witness 119
5. Witnesses to Mexico's "Living Dead" 138
Interlude 3: Flor de Arena 159
6. Stolen Lives and Fugitivity 163
Postlude 183
Notes 185
Bibliography 211
Index 229
