Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera

by Georgina Guzm and Alicia Gaspar De Alba

Book Overview

Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Ju?rez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well. Thousands more have been reported missing and remain unaccounted for. The crimes have been poorly investigated and have gone unpunished and unresolved by Mexican authorities, thus creating an epidemic of misogynist violence on an increasingly globalized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292723172
• ISBN13: 9780292723177
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"