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The Femicide Fallacy:

The Femicide Fallacy:. Tyranny of the Ten Percent…. Molly Molloy New Mexico State University SALALM 59 May 13, 2014. Serial killer may stalk Mexican border city; Seven women dead: In fearful Ciudad Juárez , some blame influences from the United States.

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The Femicide Fallacy:

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  1. The Femicide Fallacy: Tyranny of the Ten Percent… Molly Molloy New Mexico State University SALALM 59 May 13, 2014

  2. Serial killer may stalk Mexican border city; Seven women dead: In fearful Ciudad Juárez, some blame influences from the United States. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 1, 1995 Serial killer may stalk Mexican border city; Seven women dead: In fearful Ciudad Juárez, some blame influences from the United States. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 1, 1995 Serial killer may stalk Mexican border city; Seven women dead: In fearful Ciudad Juárez, some blame influences from the United States. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 1, 1995 Serial killer may stalk Mexican border city; Seven women dead: In fearful Ciudad Juárez, some blame influences from the United States. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 1, 1995 IN Juárez, WOMEN JUST VANISH. FIVE HAVE GONE MISSING THIS YEAR - OVER 100 IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS.; AND THEY USUALLY TURN UP IN THE DESERT. DEAD. MAIL ON SUNDAY, May 17, 1998 IN Juárez, WOMEN JUST VANISH. FIVE HAVE GONE MISSING THIS YEAR - OVER 100 IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS.; AND THEY USUALLY TURN UP IN THE DESERT. DEAD. MAIL ON SUNDAY, May 17, 1998 IN Juárez, WOMEN JUST VANISH. FIVE HAVE GONE MISSING THIS YEAR - OVER 100 IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS.; AND THEY USUALLY TURN UP IN THE DESERT. DEAD. MAIL ON SUNDAY, May 17, 1998 IN Juárez, WOMEN JUST VANISH. FIVE HAVE GONE MISSING THIS YEAR - OVER 100 IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS.; AND THEY USUALLY TURN UP IN THE DESERT. DEAD. …. MAIL ON SUNDAY, May 17, 1998 FOR MEXICAN WOMEN, ROAD TO A JOB IS A RISK IN Juárez, THEY WORK LATE HOURS IN FACTORIES. THOUGH EMPOWERED BY EMPLOYMENT, IT ALSO BRINGS DANGERS. … The Philadelphia Inquirer, JUNE 14, 1999 G2: Women: Deadly frontier: In nine years, 300 women have been murdered in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, 76 of them by a serial killer - or killers. But there was little outrage - until a mass grave full of mutilated bodies was discovered. Jo Tuckman reports The Guardian (London), March 25, 2002 Who protects the women of Juárez? Did a demented serial killer order accomplices to conduct a rape and murder spree from his prison cell? Would that explain why 182 women have been slain in six years in Ciudad Juárez? The surviving women of this turbulent border town don't think so. The Globe and Mail (Canada), December 9, 1999

  3. Who Is Killing the Young Women of Juárez? A Filmmaker Seeks Answers The New York Times, August 19, 2002 Wave of Women's Killings Confounds Juárez ….The New York Times, December 10, 2002 Who Is Killing the Young Women of Juárez? A Filmmaker Seeks Answers The New York Times, August 19, 2002 The World: 'Rich killers' stalk City of Lost Girls: Sandra Jordan reports from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, where one campaigner is battling the authorities to expose the powerful men she believes to have murdered 100 women….The Observer, November 2, 2003 Rights commission scathing in report on Mexican killings: Authorities have failed to solve deaths of 263 women in bordertownJuárez…….The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), November 27, 2003 Observer Magazine: DISPATCHES: THE LAWLESS MEXICA Film stars lead Juárez killings march; Morning Star, February 16, 2004 Where the devil fears to tread In Ciudad Juárez, notorious in Mexico as 'the town of the murdered girls', JULIAN COMAN reveals the latest twist in the brutal saga of the serial sex slayings that have horrified the border city for more than a decade SUNDAY SUTELEAPH(LONDON), June 01, 2003 Observer Magazine: DISPATCHES: THE LAWLESS MEXICAN BORDER TOWN OF Juárez IS NO STRANGER TO DEATH. FIEFDOM OF THE INFAMOUS NARCO-TRAFFICANTE 'LORD OF THE SKIES', ITS FORTUNES ARE BUILT ON HARD DRUGS AND CHEAP LABOUR. BUT NOW AN EVEN MORE RUTHLESS MENACE STALKS ITS DUSTY STREETS. ED VULLIAMY UNRAVELS THE MURDER SPREE WHICH HAS LEFT 340 YOUNG WOMEN DEAD……The Observer, March 9, 2003

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  5. El cineasta Gregory Nava dice que hay 5 mil mujeres desaparecidas en Juárez El Diario entrevistó al director de cine Gregory Nava, quien se molestó por las preguntas sobre la repetición de mitos y clichés en su película Verdades que matan (“Bordertown”, en inglés). El cineasta dijo que hay más de 5 mil mujeres desaparecidas en Ciudad Juárez y que su película “dice que hay películas snuff, que hay gente robando órganos, que hay asesinos seriales, que hay gente rica que está haciendo esto y está tapado”. …17 de Mayo de 2008 http://www.almargen.com.mx/notas.php?IDNOTA=914&IDSECCION=Homicidios%20de%20Mujeres&IDREPORTERO=La%20Redacci%F3n The film is inspired by the true story of the numerous female homicides in Ciudad Juárez and tells the story of an inquisitive American reporter sent in by her American newspaper to investigate the murders. 500 girls and women disappear and are later killed in Juárez, Mexico, and no one does anything about it. This book, with its explosive conclusions, reveals the high-level protection that allowed the killers to continue living their lives for over a dozen years. The “femicides,” as the murders are called, have spread to other parts of Mexico. This is the real story behind the Hollywood movie.

  6. WorldCat results for: ((su= "Women" AND (su= "Crimes against")) AND su= "Mexico") and (su= "Ciudad Juárez."). (Save Search)Records found: 249(English: 111) Rank by: Number of Libraries

  7. Juárez Homicides 1988-2012 Women are 9 percent of victims averaged over 24 years In the U.S. 1999-2012, about 22 percent of homicide victims each year are women. Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports Juárez homicide statistics from published research by Julia MonarrezFragoso and El Diario de Juárez

  8. Juárez / Philadelphiahomicides compared Source: Philadelphia Inquirer “Since 1988, over 9,000 people have been slain on the streets of Philadelphia, affecting every neighborhood in the city. To put that deadly toll in perspective, during the length of U.S. combat operations in the Iraq war, 3,517 American troops were killed in action - and 3,113 people were killed in Philadelphia.

  9. Source: Lexis/Nexis search ALL NEWSPAPERS Juárez in HEADLINE AND violence 570. Juárez killings: Women victims are new aspect of ongoing violence across border…El Paso Times (Texas), October 15, 2009 Thursday, OPINION, El Paso Times Staff 1000.'They have been tortured and - in every case - raped'; Since 1993, up to 400 women have been sexually assaulted and murdered in the Mexican city of Juárezand while the attacks continue to this day, the police are no longer even bothering to investigate them. Valerie Shanleyreports…Sunday Tribune (Ireland), November 28, 2010 140 / 1,511 are about murders of women 9.2 percent = % of female victims 1988-present

  10. Academic search (Academic Search Premier, Criminal Justice Abstracts, SOCIndex, MLA…) Search strategy: Juárez AND violen* Limited to Scholarly/Peer-reviewed journals Total results: about 111 49 articles (44 percent) are about violence against women; and in the pre-2009 results, almost ALL are about violence against women and Femicide

  11. 243 victims in 25 separate mass murder events from August 2008-present in which 6 or more people shot to death at one crime scene Cimbran a Juárez 25 masacres en cinco años Martín OrquizEl Diario | 2013-09-24 | 22:14 Durante los últimos cinco años los fronterizos se han conmocionado por una serie de masacres, donde las víctimas fueron aniquiladas a balazos en ataques perpetrados por igual en viviendas, canchas deportivas, sepelios, restaurantes, centros de rehabilitación, prisiones, bares y la calle.

  12. FALLACIES • THOUSANDS of young “factory girls” have been raped, mutilated, murdered and tossed in the desert…women are murdered simply for being women… • Since 1988, about 1,400 women have been killed…about ¾ of them victims of domestic violence • Many of them were young, but more than half were women older than 25 • Only a small percentage of the murder victims were maquiladora employees • Of the 427 cases documented by Esther Chavez between 1990 and 2007, only 12 bodies showed signs of mutilations • Since the hyperviolence began in 2008, women have been killed in all of the same ways and for the same reasons that men were killed: shot to death on the street, in their homes… men are assumed to be connected to narco-trafficking and so deserve their fate • Since 1988, MORE THAN 14,000 MEN HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN Juárez • NONE of the crimes have been solved…authorities don’t care about the murders of young women • Impunity in Juárez is about 98% and applies to ALL crimes, not just the murders of women… • More of the women’s murders have been investigated, some have been solved, some perpetrators have been jailed… • Impunity for the crimes against women led to the massive numbers of killings in the “drug war” that began in 2008 • Impunity is the norm for crimes in Mexico. After 2007, there was less media attention to the femicides. • This statement was a way to keep telling the same story and to ignore the exploding human rights catastrophe that had nothing to do with gender.

  13. It does not mean that the smaller percentage of female victims do not matter, but rather that ALL of the lives—of women, men, boys and girls—ALL of them matter. And that in the current explosion of crime and violence, all of the people of Juárez are victims, not only the women. What is happening in Juárezis much more than “femicide.” It is a human rights disaster.

  14. Dejancadáver en terrenobaldío; le dejaroncaer block en la cabeza Staff El Diario| 2013-03-04 | 07:27 The body of a man was found this morning in a vacant lot located 100 meters from the intersection of LibramientoIndependencia and Ave. de las Torres. The body was wearing black pants, red plaid sweater and white tennis shoes. It appeared that the victim died after being struck in the head with a concrete block. Ni el frío los detiene: matan a cuatroayer Staff El Diario | 03-02-2011 | 00:24 The freezing temperatures did not frighten the sicarios who yesterday executed 4 people in separate incidents. No one was arrested in any of the cases.

  15. “People are interested in the dead women of Juárezbecause it's a way not to look at Juárez. If you say it's young girls, 16 to 18, being killed by a serial killer or rich guys for fun or whatever, then you have a finite problem and you don't have to look at the city. And you can ignore the fact that…some 300 women have vanished, depending on who's counting; 2,800 people have died. You can ignore the fact that 700 men have disappeared in the same period. You can pretend that the only problem in Juárezis this bizarre slaughter of young girls, and then you're safe. … And you don't have to deal with the fact that this economic idea we had of border factories… is a goddamned disaster, that it's killing people, that no one can live on the wages, that workers leaving American factories spend two hours getting home to a cardboard shack and they're working 44 to 48 hours a week and you wonder why they get violent.” Charles Bowden, Interviewed by Scott Carrier on NPR, Day-to-Day, broadcast June 21, 2004 Mother, relatives mourn Eduardo Villalobos Jáquez, 16, killed at the Anexo de Vida rehab center, along with 10 other inmates, September 15, 2009.

  16. She is from Guadalupe Distrito Bravo. Two of her brothers were murdered. A nephew was disappeared and later found in a mass grave. Another nephew was disappeared, assumed dead, but they have no body to bury. She has two children, one boy and one girl. Her son suffers from severe anxiety disorder and depression for almost 4 years now. He is 11 years old. She was talking to her son about how he is growing up and how proud she is of him. He became hysterical. He told her he was going to be like Peter Pan and the lost boys and he was never going to grow up. She asked him why he doesn't want to grow up: He said that when a boy becomes a young man then they kill him and no one cares. There are no crosses for the boys like the girls. They blame the boys just because they grew up.

  17. References for getting to the truth of death in Juárez and revealing the femicidefallacy: Pedro Albuquerque and Prasad Vemala, “A Statistical Evaluation of Femicide Rates in Mexican Cities along the US-Mexico Border,” (Canadian Law and Economics Association (CLEA) 2008 Meetings, 2008.) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1112308 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1112308 Esther Chavez Cano (d. 2009) and the Esther Chavez Cano Collection. Rio Grande Historical Collections, New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces, NM. http://lib.nmsu.edu/exhibits/chavezcano/ Scott Carrier, Juárez: City on the Edge. Part 1: Poverty in the Global Economy, Broadcast June 21, 2004, Day-to-Day, National Public Radio. http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=119 Jose Perez Espino, Homicidios de Mujeres: La invencion de mitos en los medio y la lucrative teoria de la conspiracion. Al Margen, 20 Feb 2006, http://almargen.com.mx/ and, Homicidios de mujeres: nombres, rostros y móvil de los asesinos. Al Margen, 26 April 2009, http://almargen.com.mx/ Erin Frey, “Femicide in Juárez, Mexico: The Hidden Transcript That No One Wants to Read,” (Honors’ Thesis, Branford College Department of History, Yale University, 2008). and “While you were watching: How four hundred murders hid the deaths of thousands, (Unpublished manuscript), 2008. Adam Jones, “The Murdered Men of Ciudad Juárez,” (published in Spanish Published in Spanish translation in LetrasLibres (Mexico), April 2004. http://adamjones.freeservers.com/Juárez.htm Robert Andrew Powell, “The Dead Women of Juárez” (published as a Kindle Single), 2011. and This Love is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez, New York: Bloomsbury, 2012. And: Debbie Nathan, Julia MonarrezFragoso, Sandra Rodriguez Nieto, Julian Cardona, Charles Bowden, Theresa Westbrock, Felipe Castillo

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