Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S./Mexico Border  

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Téllez, Michelle

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Gender and society; vol. 22 no. 05 (Oct. 2008), page 545-567.
Topik: resistance; social movements; violence; transnationalism; globalization
Fulltext: 545.pdf (121.66KB)

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Using 10 women’s narratives, participant observation, archival research, and a focus group, this article analyzes women’s social activism in a settler community in northern Mexico near the border. I argue that women’s activism and emerging political consciousness provides a lens through which women critique structural violence and intimate partner violence and that ultimately provides new women-centered subjectivities. This article contributes to gender and social movements literature by examining the generation of a political consciousness engendered from women’s grounded experience of living on the U.S./Mexico border. Furthermore, despite the unique sociopolitical conditions of the border, this article demonstrates that border residents have the agency to challenge, and more importantly, change their situation.

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