{"product_id":"the-femicide-machine-sergio-gonzalez-rodriguez-9781584351108","title":"The Femicide Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn account and analysis of the systematic murder of women and girls in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Ju rez.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn't just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guarantee impunity for those crimes and even legalize them. A lawless city sponsored by a State in crisis. The facts speak for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eThe Femicide Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known to American readers for his cameo appearances as The Journalist in Roberto Bolano's \u003ci\u003e2666\u003c\/i\u003e and as a literary detective in Javier Mar as's nove\u003ci\u003el Dark Back of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Sergio Gonz lez Rodr guez is one of Mexico's most important contemporary writers. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBones in the Desert\u003c\/i\u003e, the most definitive work on the murders of women and girls in Ju rez, Mexico, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Headless Man\u003c\/i\u003e, a sharp meditation on the recurrent uses of symbolic violence; \u003ci\u003eInfectious\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel; and \u003ci\u003eOriginal Evil, \u003c\/i\u003e a long essay. The \u003ci\u003eFemicide Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book by Gonz lez Rodr guez to appear in English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten especially for Semiotext(e) Intervention series, \u003ci\u003eThe Femicide Machine\u003c\/i\u003e synthesizes Gonz lez Rodr guez's documentation of the Ju rez crimes, his analysis of the unique urban conditions in which they take place, and a discussion of the terror techniques of narco-warfare that have spread to both sides of the border. The result is a gripping polemic.\u003ci\u003e The Femicide Machine\u003c\/i\u003e probes the anarchic confluence of global capital with corrupt national politics and displaced, transient labor, and introduces the work of one of Mexico's most eminent writers to American readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sergia Gonzalez Rodriguez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1584351101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584351108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.37h x 4.60w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2012","brand":"Sergia Gonzalez Rodriguez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045294829823,"sku":"9781584351108","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1452f8aa-a851-47aa-b54b-dcd602b3d2cb.jpg?v=1684977902","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-femicide-machine-sergio-gonzalez-rodriguez-9781584351108","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}