Eterna violencia Vidas de las mujeres ladinas en Guatemala - Cecilia Menjívar

Editorial: Del Pensativo Ediciones/ 2014/ ISBN: 9789929809093/ 294 paginas/ español

Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, the author 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, the author 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, she aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence, profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable s… (cont.)