Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala

by Cecilia Menjívar

Book Overview

Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menj var 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, Menj var 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520267664
• ISBN13: 9780520267664
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"