Enduring Violence : Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala.
Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar 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, Menjívar turns to a diff...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011
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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.
