Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juarez
By (Author) Marjorie Agosin
Translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman
White Pine Press
White Pine Press
1st June 2006
United States
General
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
861
Paperback
96
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 12mm
240g
Over the past decade over 350 women around the city of Jurez, Mexico, have been raped and murdered. The remains of these brutalized young women continue to be found scattered in the parched desert, vacant city lots, and roadside ditches. Others are never found.
In Secrets In The Sand, Agosin through her words and images invites her readers to bear witness to the reality that the grieving families of the disappeared and murdered young women face every day.
As a poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin has dedicated her lifes work to the search for justice and human dignity.
Marjorie Agosin is a poet, writer and human rights activist. She is also a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College and editor of our Secret Weavers Series. Celeste Kostopulos Cooperman is a translator and professor and Director of the Latin American and Carribean Studies Program at Sufflolk University in Boston, Ma.