TY - BOOK ID - 134641345 TI - Enduring Violence PY - 2011 SN - 1283291800 9786613291806 0520948416 9780520948419 6613291803 9780520267664 0520267664 9780520267671 0520267672 9781283291804 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Ladino (Latin American people) KW - Violence KW - Social conditions. KW - Violence against KW - anthropology. KW - asylum. KW - catholicism. KW - criminology. KW - exploitation. KW - female survivors. KW - female victims. KW - feminicide. KW - gender inequality. KW - gender norms. KW - gender roles. KW - gender studies. KW - gender. KW - guatemala. KW - immigration. KW - inequality. KW - institutional violence. KW - ladina. KW - latin america. KW - latina. KW - microaggressions. KW - migration. KW - political violence. KW - poverty. KW - refugee. KW - religion. KW - sexuality. KW - structural violence. KW - underdeveloped countries. KW - violence against women. KW - violence. KW - vulnerability. KW - women. KW - womens studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134641345 AB - 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 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, Menjívar 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. ER -