ABSTRACT

On International Women's Day, the focus of demonstrations, or manifestacciones, centered on issues of violence against women. Foregrounding violence against women as a critical issue on International Women's Day makes perfect sense given the statistic that one in three women across the globe experience physical, sexual, and/or intimate partner violence within their lifetime. Across North America, the state-sanctioned physical violence against African American, Indigenous, Muslim, Latinx, immigrant, and transgender women and men is compounded by the symbolic violence of media accounts that exacerbate racial tensions and criminalization of Black and Brown bodies. One might not easily make that association in the (mainland) United States, where activities that are identified and highlighted as "women's rights" tend to feature issues of pay equity, expansive notions of gender identity, and reproductive rights. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.