Immerse In The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes Of Mexicos First Female Serial Killer Compiled By Susana Vargas Cervantes Delivered In Digital Edition

intent is to point out how media, police, and criminologists are not demanding responsibility from Barraza for the killing of elderly women but are pathologizing her for her class, race, and most of all her nonnormative gender and wrestling practice.
It is La Dama del Silencio who is being criminalized and not Juana Barraza, When Barraza was arrested, the Mataviejitas case was closed, suggesting that only one serial killer was responsible for all the killings of elderly women, despite the large number of unresolved cases.
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El libro realmente cumple el propósito que se planteó, Vargas discute con una perspectiva de género no sólo el caso de la mataviejitas, sino también porqué el caso nos importa más y a las autoridades que el asesinato de homosexuales o las muertas de Juárez.
También discute las nociones de pigmentocracia de nuestro país y cómo nuestra noción de quién es un criminal y quién es una víctima que merece obtener justicia están basadas en el estrato socioeconómico, las creencias religiosas y el color de nuestra piel.
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A bit circuitous at times, but overall an insightful, captivating read, A great navigation of mexicanidad and its relationship to prescribed gender roles and contemporary discourse on what constitutes criminality, The surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer

For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse.
When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio the Lady of Silence, was arrestedand eventually sentenced toyears in prisonfor her crimes as the Mataviejitas the little old lady killer, her case disrupted traditional narratives about gender, criminality, and victimhood in the popular and criminological imagination.


Marshaling ten years of research, and one of the only interviews that Juana Barraza Samperio has given while in prison, Susana Vargas Cervantes deconstructs this uniquely provocative story.
She focuses, in particular, on the complex, gendered aspects of the case,

asking: Who is a killer Barrazawith her "manly" features and strength, her career as a masked wrestler in lucha libre, and her violent crimesis presented, here, as a study in gender deviance, a disruption of what scholars call mexicanidad, or the masculine notion of what it means to be Mexican.
Cervantes also challenges our conception of victimhoodspecifically, who "counts" as a victim,

The Little Old Lady Killer presents a fascinating analysis of what serial killingoften considered "killing for the pleasure of killing"represents to us.
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