Enduring Violence

Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala

By: Cecilia MenjÃvar

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Hardcover | 1 April 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menj var 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, Menj var 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, Menj var 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.

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"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 ReVista

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Acknowledgments
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
Notes
References
Index
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