Enduring Violence

Cecilia Menjivar is Cowden Distinguished Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. She is the author of Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (UC Press), among other books. Menjivar won the Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award from the Latino/a Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.

• Acknowledgments 1. Approaching Violence in Eastern Guatemala 2. A Framework for Examining Violence 3. Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Woman's Self and Body 4. Marital Unions and the Normalization of Suffering 5. Children, Motherhood, and the Routinization of Pain and Sacrifice 6. Women's Work: Normalizing and Sustaining Gender Inequality 7. Church, Religion, and Enduring Everyday Violence 8. Enduring Violence Notes References Index

"This study is rich... Makes an important contribution." The Americas "The books shows how years after the war's end, echoes of its large-scale violence continue to blight the lives of Guatemala's most vulnerable, especially the poor, and especially women." -- Aviva Chomsky ReVista