RT Book
T1 The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide
T2 Dissident Acts Series
A1 Fregoso, Rosa Linda 1954-
LA English
PP Durham
PB Duke University Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1848834543
AB In The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Fregoso traces the micro and macro scales of misogyny and the patterns of state complicity with gender violence. She shows how different forms of witnessing—from activist-mothers’ bearing witness to the memories of their daughters and expert witnesses in court cases to communal witnessing and a scholar-activist-citizen witnessing her own actions—are key to resisting feminicidal violence. Fregoso situates these forms of witness in the histories, contexts, structures, bodies, and intersectional struggles they emerge from. By outlining the complexities of feminicidal violence in relation to witnessing processes, Fregoso challenges the notion of witness as an individual or autonomous subject inscribed solely in the legal or religious arenas. Rather, she theorizes witness as a force of collectivity and a constellation of multiple social locations and intersectional practices that work together to abolish feminicidal violence.
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
CN 362.88082
SN 9781478024385
K1 Women : Crimes against : Prevention : Mexico
K1 Women : Violence against : Prevention : Mexico
K1 Women : Social conditions : 21st century : Mexico
K1 Misogyny : Mexico
K1 Collective Memory : Mexico
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
DO 10.1215/9781478024385