Female Bodies, Violence and Hoarding by Dispossession

In this chapter, the researcher proposes to reflect on the use of violence and sexual torture by agents of the Mexican State against indigenous and peasant women, as part of a patriarchal semantics of violence and impunity that is developing in different Indigenous regions of the country within the framework of accumulation by dispossession processes. From a feminist perspective, it analyzes the link that exists between the occupation through the violation of the bodies of indigenous women and the occupation of their territories and the dispossession of their natural resources.

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