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Preface. Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide: Theoretical, Political, and Legal Construction / Marcela Lagarede y de los Rios xi Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction. A Cartography of Feminicide in the Americas / Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano 1 Part I: Localizing Feminicide Testimonio: Eva Arce 45 Violencia Feminicida: Violence against Women and Mexico's Structural Crisis / Mercedes Olivera 49 The Victims of Cuidad Juarez Feminicide: Sexually Fetishized Commodities / Julia Estela Monarrez Fragoso 59 Territory, Sovereignty, and the Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women / Rita Laura Segato 70 Getting Away with Murder: Guatemala's Failure to Protect Women and Rodi Alvarado's Quest for Safety / Angelica Chazaro, Jennifer Casey, and Katherine Ruhl 93 Femicides in Mar de Plata / Marta Fontenla 116 Femicide and Sexual Violence in Guatemala / Hilda Morales Trujillo 127 When Violence against Women Kills: Femicide in Costa Rica, 1990-99 / Montserrat Sagot and Ana Carcedo Cabanas 138 Feminicide in Latin America in the Movement for Women's Human Rights / Adriana Carmona Lopez, Alma Gomez Caballero, and Lucha Castro Rodriguez 157 Part II. Transnationalizing Justice Testimonio: Julia Huamanahui 179 Obedience without Compliance: The Role of the Government, Organized Crime, and NGOs in the System of Impunity That Murders the Women of Cuidad Juarez / Hector Domiguez-Ruvalcaba and Patricia Ravelo Blancas 182 Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Cuidad Juarez / William Paul Simmons and Rebecca Coplan 197 Global Economics and Their Progenies: Theorizing Femicide in Context / Deborah M. Weissman 225 Searching for Accountability on the Border: Justice for the Women of Cuidad Juarez / Christina Iturralde 243 Photo Essay: Images from the Justice Movement in Chihuahua, Mexico 263 Part III. New Citizenship Practices Testimonio: Rosa Franco 273 Cuidadana X: Gender Violence and the Denationalization of Women's Rights in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico / Alicia Schmidt Camacho 275 Feminicidio: Making the Most of an Empowered Term / Pascha Bueno-Hansen 290 Paradoxes, Protests, and the Mujeres de Negro of Northern Mexico / Melissa W. Wright 312 Testimonio: Norma Ledezma Ortega 331 References 335 Contributors 367 Index 371