Women’s Politics of Solidarity in El Salvador
Familial Love, Carceral Peace, and Patriarchy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6051993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada (0000-0001-8194-6938, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 739-754 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1205-8629 • E-ISSN: 1572-9877 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10612-025-09855-y |
| PMID | 41476702 |
| OpenAlex | W4414612158 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
(MS-13) leader in El Salvador, through the perspective of and interviews with his cousin, Alicia. I argue that women relatives of male gang members' complex practices of solidarity reveal how patriarchy shapes dynamics across scales, fueling gang and state violence as a practice of protection for family and nation. Failing to address patriarchy condemns security efforts to ongoing violence as part of state measures to attain peace
Embeddedness · Patriarchy · Politics · Punitive damages · Solidarity · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues
Casualties of Care
Youth Street Gangs
Women in War
El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
The Logic of Masculinist Protection
Life and Words
Gang talk and gang talkers
Under Western Eyes
The intimacies of drug dealing
Shattering Silence
The Myths of Violence
Wee Women No More
Mano Dura
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
Man a Kill a Man for Nutin
Intersectional justice denied
| Highly cited | No |
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