TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S./Mexico Border
JO  - Gender and society
A1  - Téllez, Michelle
SP  - 545
EP  - 567
VL  - 22
IS  - 5
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 0891-2432
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243208321020
ID  - ref1
ER  -