Abstract
Within the context of globalization it is necessary to investigate not just the possible male perpetrators but also the export-processing zone and the city of Juarez itself. After recounting the story of the murdered women in Juarez as it is being reported by U.S. and British Commonwealth journalists I will place these murders in their socioeconomic and ideological context in order to analyze the gendering of production the gendering of violence and the relationship between the two. The murders of the young women result from a displacement of economic frustration onto the bodies of the women who work in the maquiladoras. The construction of working women as cheap labor and disposable within the system makes it possible and perhaps acceptable to kill them with impunity. (excerpt)
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