Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
When globalization brings minority communities or developing world countries into abrasive contact with dominant cultures or hegemonic cultures the effect on gender roles can produce a backlash that severely impacts the status of women in these communities or countries. The focus of this paper on violence against women is two sites of ‘borderland’ cultural contact, the ghettoized North and Sub Saharan African neighborhoods and suburbs of Paris and other French cities and the Mexican border city, Ciudad Juarez. The similar issues in these border zones are conflicting sets of gender roles and inadequate or nonexistent legal protection for victims of violence.
Publication Title
Cultural Studies Now, Conference Journal 2007
Recommended Citation
Armstrong, Jeanne Ph.D., "Globalization, Violence against Women in Border Communities and Cultural Studies" (2007). Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications. 48.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/library_facpubs/48
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Women--Violence against--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez; Women--Violence against--Africa, Sub-Saharan; Sexism---Mexico--Ciudad Juárez; Sexism--Africa, Sub-Saharan; Sex discrimination--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez; Sex discrimination--Africa, Sub-Saharan; Classism-Mexico--Ciudad Juárez; Classism--Africa, Sub-Saharan; Racism-Mexico--Ciudad Juárez; Racism--Africa, Sub-Saharan; Heterosexism-Mexico--Ciudad Juárez; Heterosexism--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Geographic Coverage
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico); Africa, Sub-Saharan
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Comments
This article was originally published as a University of East London, Cultural Studies Now online conference paper.