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The Woman in the Violence
Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru
Focusing on the experiences of women who are predominantly poor, nonwhite, rural-to-urban migrants with little or no formal education, The Woman in the Violence addresses a range of serious concerns. What types of violence do women experience at different stages in their lives? Which identities and roles are manifested throughout their lives, and do some of these increase their vulnerability to different forms of violence? What strategies do women employ to gain some power and control in these situations, and how can we conceptualize these strategies?
In examining these questions, The Woman in the Violence contributes to our understanding of violence, gender, race, resistance, and urbanism as it exposes and analyzes systemic violence against women. The everyday forms of resistance these women employ provide significant insight for students, scholars, and health professionals.
M. Cristina Alcalde is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky.
"Alcalde's examination of domestic violence, and of the lives of women who are victims of violence, offers much needed insights about a topic that has been underemphasized in discussions about violence in Latin America."
--Maria Elena Garcia, University of Washington, author of Making Indigenous Citizens
"Insightful, accessible, and highly recommended."
--Anthropological Quarterly