Gender Violence in Failed and Democratic States

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Ileana Rodriguez

   Pages 1-19

3. State Archives, Mass Media Reports, and Visceral Memories: The Cases of Margarito y Marianita

   • Ileana Rodriguez

   Pages 21-52

4. Incest, Pedophilia, Rape: Theories of Desire and Jurisprudence, The Case of the Other Rosita

   • Ileana Rodriguez

   Pages 53-73

5. Public Sex: Talking and Fulking. Signifying Erotica under the Watch of Strong and Weak States. The Cases of Elizabeth Fritzl and Rosita

   • Ileana Rodriguez

   Pages 75-105

6. Trash Literature: Reports of Incest in Democratic and Failed States, The Cases of Jaycee Lee Dugard and Mackenzie Phillips

   • Ileana Rodriguez

   Pages 107-131

7. In the Living Flesh: Maternities and Masculinities

   • Ileana Rodriguez

   Pages 133-153

8. Human Rights and Sexual Desires: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape

   • Ileana Rodriguez

   Pages 155-171

9. Trans-State-Border Subjectivities: International Violence and Immune Citizenship

   • Ileana Rodriguez

   Pages 173-190

10. Gendering Globalization: Women in the Corporate World and the Marketing of Women’s Bodies

    • Ileana Rodriguez

    Pages 191-203

11. Back Matter

    Pages 205-208

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 This book presents original research of violence against women in both achieved and failed states (i.e. Austria, the United States, and Nicaragua) from both a political and psychological perspective. Ileana Rodriguez presents various cases studies that showcase the hard data provided by articles on gender violence (incest, rape, feminicide) in the media, with advanced feminist theories leaning on Freud and Lacan, and with literary fiction that speaks of masculine desire.  

• Gender
• Perversion
• Masculinity
• Incest
• Rape
• sexual behaviour

• Investigadora Asociada Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica, Humanities Distinguished Professor, Emerita, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

  Ileana Rodriguez

 Ileana Rodríguez is the Humanities Distinguished Professor Emerita at The Ohio State University, USA, and an Associated Researcher at the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA). She is the author of numerous titles, including Liberalism at its Limits: Crime and Terror in the Latin American Cultural Text (2009), Transatlantic Topographies: Island, Highlands, Jungle (2005), and Women Guerrillas, and Love: Understanding War in Central America (1996). She is one of the editors of The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature (2015). 

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