In this input paper, I would like to look at Mexico’s process of democratization and how this transition has affected Mexican women, specifically indigenous for the purposes of this paper. In the middle to late 1980s, a human rights consciousness emerged within Mexico’s civil society. The number of Mexican NGOs went from four to above [...]
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Susan- Input Paper 3 on Mexico
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged input paper 3, mexico, Susan on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NAFTA and the Murders of Mexican Women Along the Border
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Input Paper, jillian richmond, mexico on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jillian Richmond
Input Paper 2
Although 300 to 400 women and girls have been found brutally murdered at the Mexican border town of Ciduad Juarez since the signing of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, no one has been found responsible for these horrible crimes, nor has there been a great effort by the Mexican [...]
Domestic Violence in Mexico
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Input Paper, jillian richmond, mexico on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jillian Richmond
PSCI 264
11-17-08
Mexican men’s violence against their intimate partners has often been attributed to “machismo,” which has an emphasis on violence, aggression, and wife beating. When an abusive man was asked why he committed a violent act against his wife, he justified his gender-based violence in terms of “machismo,” stating, “I am [...]
Susan Miller “The Invisible Actors in Mexico’s Nation-Building”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Input Paper, input paper 2, mexico, Susan, Susan Miller on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Miller
PSCI 264
Input Paper 2
In my last paper I proposed the question: which do we value more; cultural relativism or universal human rights? In answering this question, there is a danger of implying that traditions of the dominator are always wrong, while the traditions of the dominated are always right. Related to this idea, Castillo [...]
Input Paper 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Input Paper, mexico, Susan on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Miller
PSCI 264
Input Paper on Mexico
Since Mexico gained its independence in the Revolution of 1910, the state has undergone several periods of important societal change. At different points in time, Mexican women have played both peripheral and integral roles to alter state practices. In this paper, I focus specifically on the activity in the Chiapas [...]
