Enduring Violence

Ladina Womens Lives in Guatemala

CECILIA MENJVAR
Rare and groundbreaking. A must read for all interested in issues of gender, ethnic and other forms of social, economic and political injustice.
Sylvia Chant, London School of Economics and Political Science

Insightful and beautifully crafted. Though somber in content, Menjvars book offers inspiring confirmation that innovative, engaged scholarship on intractable social problems can make a difference. Charles R. Hale, University of Texas at Austin Of great scholarly importance as it fills a gap in the literature about Guatemala and allows for a nuanced understanding of the ways that women live with violence in their everyday lives.
M. Gabriela Torres, Wheaton College

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Menjvar seeks to understand the structures that gird not only the publicly visible violence but also the unspectacular, slow, often silent suffering that defines so many lives in the region. Her moving ethnography may explore the painful particulars of gendered existence in eastern Guatemala, but it also does so in such a way that reveals how deeply embedded inequalities can contort all human relations.
Ellen Moodie, author of El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace

Cecilia Menjvar is Cowden Distinguished Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. She is the author of Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (UC Press), among other books. Menjivar won the Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award from the Latino/a Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.
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A perceptive and powerful account. Written with empathy, while retaining a critical edge, this accessible and insightful volume sheds light on complex political, economic, and social processes shaping the violent realities of many women in Latin America. Barbara Sutton, author of Bodies in Crisis Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Menjvar 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, Menjvar turns to a different form of sufferingthe 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, Menjvar aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violenceprofound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situationsgrounded in womens experiences.

All royalties from this book are going to the Global Fund for Women. www.globalfundforwomen.org

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