Sarah England is associate professor of anthropology at Soka University.

In Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala, Sarah England gives us rare insight into how gender based violence works in practice. Through an exhaustive and detailed analysis of the biases that undergird how women, violence, and the state are represented in sensationalist and conservative newspapers, Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women dissects the role of the media in the country’s infamous femicide problem. Importantly, England’s work complicates narratives that assume a violent nature is inherent in Guatemalan culture by demonstrating how feminist representations of women co-exist with a regular spectacle of violent men and violated women circulated in the media.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Organizations and AcronymsList of TablesPart I. Framing the ProblemChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Violence against Women and the Media: Theory and MethodsPart II. The Specter of Gendered Terrorism: A History of Violence and Violence against Women in GuatemalaChapter 3. A Good Place to Commit Murder: A History of Violence in GuatemalaChapter 4. The War against Women: A History of Violence against Women in GuatemalaChapter 5. The Growth of the Women’s Movement and Challenges to the Patriarchal StatePart III. Talk of Crime and Narratives of Terror Written on Women’s Bodies: Blaming Gangs and DelinquentsChapter 6. Visible Violence, Invisible Assassins: "Necrographic Maps" and Terror in Guatemalan Murder ReportsChapter 7. “Easy Targets,” “Cannon Fodder,” and “The Wrong Crowd”: Framing Women as Innocent or Guilty Victims of Gangs and DelinquentsPart IV. Blaming the Patriarchal Family and State Chapter 8. “Violence lies in wait for women at home:

Sarah England is associate professor of anthropology at Soka University.

In Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala, Sarah England gives us rare insight into how gender based violence works in practice. Through an exhaustive and detailed analysis of the biases that undergird how women, violence, and the state are represented in sensationalist and conservative newspapers, Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women dissects the role of the media in the country’s infamous femicide problem. Importantly, England’s work complicates narratives that assume a violent nature is inherent in Guatemalan culture by demonstrating how feminist representations of women co-exist with a regular spectacle of violent men and violated women circulated in the media.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Organizations and AcronymsList of TablesPart I. Framing the ProblemChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Violence against Women and the Media: Theory and MethodsPart II. The Specter of Gendered Terrorism: A History of Violence and Violence against Women in GuatemalaChapter 3. A Good Place to Commit Murder: A History of Violence in GuatemalaChapter 4. The War against Women: A History of Violence against Women in GuatemalaChapter 5. The Growth of the Women’s Movement and Challenges to the Patriarchal StatePart III. Talk of Crime and Narratives of Terror Written on Women’s Bodies: Blaming Gangs and DelinquentsChapter 6. Visible Violence, Invisible Assassins: "Necrographic Maps" and Terror in Guatemalan Murder ReportsChapter 7. “Easy Targets,” “Cannon Fodder,” and “The Wrong Crowd”: Framing Women as Innocent or Guilty Victims of Gangs and DelinquentsPart IV. Blaming the Patriarchal Family and State Chapter 8. “Violence lies in wait for women at home: