Working Out Gender

Works Cited

Amavizca, Rubén. Las Mujeres de Juárez. Unpublished playscript. 2002.

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Notes

• 1) The slightly different terms femicide and feminicide are used in different resources to describe what is happening in these cities, as well as in other Third World countries, as a result of globalization.
• 2) For David's testimony regarding the torture he was subjected to see the Resource Center of the Americas.Org: Working for Human Rights in the Global Economy link at http://www.americas.org/item_27514#DAVID%20MEZA%20ARGUETA%20-%20Testimony%20of%20Torture.
• 3) This particular report gives a very thorough account of numerous agencies involved in the femicide, as well as policies and laws that have been enacted to protect the citizens, expecially women, of Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City. Unfortunately, as the report indicates, "[t]here is continued concern at the failure of the investigating and judicial authorities, particularly at state level, to consider the murder of women and young girls as part of a pattern of violence against women, rather than as individual criminal acts."
• 4) During the production I write about in this article of Rubén Amavizca's Las Mujeres de Juárez, Casa Amiga, Amnesty International USA and the Red Cross of Mexico were among the entities that benefited from our performances both in the United States and Mexico. In addition, on May 10, 2005, the play was performed on an outdoor stage in front of the Arizona State Capitol after a day of rallies that were conducted for immigrants' rights. Several of the cast members traveled to Ciudad Juárez the night before to escort several of the mothers across the border so that they could be in the audience. This play is not intended to exploit the families, but to bring this subject to light.
• 5) At this time this play has not received formal publication, although it has been produced in several cities in both the United States and Mexico.
• 6) All references to the staging of this play contained in this essay refer to my work as the director of the 2005 production in Phoenix, Arizona, under the aegis of Teatro Bravo. This version was subsequently produced by the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada, Reno; as a benefit for the Red Cross of Mexico in Puerto Peñasco, Mx; and finally, in 2006 during the Western Regional Conference of Amnesty International USA in Tucson, Arizona. All references to the text of the play are based on the script used for this production and may not reflect revisions made by the playwright. The version of the text used is on file with the author of this paper.