Memory and Art: Remembering the Femicides

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Ruffin, Lydia
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Women -- Crimes against
Homicide
Collective memory
Collective memory in art
Mexico -- Ciudad Juàrez
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Capstone; [FULL-TEXT FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE]
 
Lydia Ruffin is a member of the Class of 2022 of Washington and Lee University.
 
Femicide -- the targeted murders of women as a form of gender discrimination. Approximately 470 women murdered from 1994-2006 in Ciudad Juàrez, Mexico . . . Mexican government and police force has done little to nothing in terms of persecution or ending the femicides. . . . Memory and Art -- Remembering is part of forgetting. Art can help make painful memories more comprehensible. Allows the viewer to understand the complexities of the tragedy. Art evokes empathy.
 
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