Staging the crime scene: feminicide and performativity in Ciudad Juárez

2025/12/03 by Josh Weeks · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Latin American Literature Studies #Latin American and Latino Studies #Politics and Society in Latin America

paper · doi:10.14324/111.444.ra.2025.v10.1.011

openalex created_date 2025/12/03 · openalex publication_date 2025/12/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

This commentary focuses on what Monárrez Fragoso calls ‘systemic sexual feminicide’ in Ciudad Juárez and examines the patriarchal-colonial conditions that make the murder of women possible and widespread. Specifically, it draws on the work of Rita Laura Segato to show how the style of the killings – the rape, torture and murder of victims who are then dumped in semi-public spaces – relates to the production of impunity, before turning to individuals and groups that challenge this relation.

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