The Femicide Myth

A recent publication by Robert Andrew Powell titled The Dead Women of Juarez (Kindle Single, examines the numbers of women killed in Ciudad Juarez from the early 1990s to the present. What Powell finds is that the murder rate for women in Juarez is no higher than that of Philadelphia. This raises many questions. Here are but a few: 1) Why don’t places with extremely high murder rates for females get more attention? 2) How did Juarez get this reputation in the first place? 3) How come the cold, hard facts have been ignored in Juarez while the myth of the femicides persists?

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Matt, May 8th 2012 | Tags: , ,
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