Women and migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: a reader

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About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part 1. Borderlands as Site of Struggle Toward a Planetary Civil Society / Rosa Linda Fregoso 35 A Glass Half Empty: Latina Reproduction and Public Discourse / Leo R. Chavez 67 Illegal Status and Social Citizenship: Thoughts on Mexican Immigrants in a Postnational World / Adelaida R. Del Castillo 92 Looking Like a Lesbian: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States-Mexican Border / Eithne Luibheid 106 The Value of Immigrant Life / Jonathan Xavier India 134 Part 2. The Topography of Violence Manufacturing Sexual Subjects: Harassment, Desire, and Discipline on a Maquiladora Shopfloor / Leslie Salzinger 161 The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras / Melissa W. Wright 184 Rape as a Weapon of War: Militarized Rape at the US-Mexico Border / Sylvanna M. Falcon 203 Nunca he dejada de tener terror: Sexual Violence in the Lives of Mexican Immigrant Women / Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez 224 Part 3. Flexible Accumulation and Resistance Changing Constructions of Sexuality and Risk: Migrant Mexican Women Farmworkers in California / Xochitl Castaneda and Patricia Zavella 249 Space, Gender, and Work: Home-Based Workers in Mexico / Faranak Miraftab 269 Mexican Immigrant Women and the New Domestic Labor / Maria de la Luz Ibarra 286 Aqui estamos y no nos vamos Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and New Citizenship Claims / Cynthia Cranford 306 Part 4. Family Formations and Transnational Social Networks Transborder Families and Gendered Trajectories of Migration and Work / Norma Ojeda de la Pena 327 Women, Migration, and Household Survival Strategies: Mixtec Women in Tijuana / Laura Velasco Ortiz 341 Single-Parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-Headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns / Sylvia Chant 360 Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment / Denise A. Segura 368 Here, but I'm There: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila 388 Part 5. Transculturation and Identity in Daily Life Reproduction of Gender Relations in the Mexican Migrant Community of New Rochelle, New York / Victoria Malkan 415 En el norte la mujer manda: Gender, Generation, and Geography in a Mexican Transnational Community / Jennifer S. Hirsch 438 Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song / Olga Najera-Ramirez 456 Becoming Selena, Becoming Latina / Deborah Paredez 477 Cyberbrides and Global Imaginaries: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel 503 Bibliography 521 Contributors 585 Index 587

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