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Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S./Mexico Border

Arizona State University

Using 10 women's narratives, participant observation, archival research, and a focus group, this article analyzes women's social activism in a settler community in northern Mexico near the border. I argue that women's activism and emerging political consciousness provides a lens through which women critique structural violence and intimate partner violence and that ultimately provides new women-centered subjectivities. This article contributes to gender and social movements literature by examining the generation of a political consciousness engendered from women's grounded experience of living on the U.S./Mexico border. Furthermore, despite the unique sociopolitical conditions of the border, this article demonstrates that border residents have the agency to challenge, and more importantly, change their situation.

Key Words: resistance • social movements • violence • transnationalism • globalization

This version was published on October 1, 2008

Gender & Society, Vol. 22, No. 5, 545-567 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243208321020


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