Gender and Violence in Lorena Wolffer’s Work
摘要
This chapter explores Lorena Wolffer’s performance pieces, from 1992 to 2011, in which she represents Mexico’s state violence against indigenous communities, the impact that neoliberalism and the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992 had on the Mexican economy, using her body as an analogy to represent Mexico as a second class country just as women had been treated as second class citizens, and gender issues regarding a patriarchal and inequitable social structure. For better understanding of Wolffer’s work, the chapter develops into three categories: blood, homeland and the female body, addressing political and economical issues in Mexico; testimony, absence, and death dealing with femicide, gender violence and women’s testimonies; and object, dialectical image, and ghost, looking for community strategies to end gender violence in Mexico.