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• Title: Here Comes the Brides' March: Cultural Appropriation and Latina Activism.
• Author : Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
• Release Date : January 22, 2004
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 302 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION Domestic violence, though often disaggregated as a women's issue, is a social phenomenon that encompasses physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and psychological abuses; reaches across race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background; and impacts everyone including children, the elderly, and the disabled. The image of an abused woman conveyed in popular culture and political rhetoric is fraught with stereotypes of poverty, low educational attainment, and cultural or ethnic predisposition to violence. Yet these misconceptions lead to a flattened and deeply flawed approach to a highly dimensional social epidemic. In America, "battering of women by husbands, ex-husbands and lovers [is] the single largest cause of injury to women," and "thirty-one percent of all women murdered are killed by husbands, ex-husbands and lovers." (2) This article focuses specifically on heterosexual violence in the Latina/o community through the case of Gladys Ricart, a Dominican-American woman assassinated by an ex-lover on her wedding day, and the startling activism of the Gladys Ricart and Victims of Domestic Violence Memorial Walk ("Brides' March" or "March") that was born in her wake. Josie Ashton first initiated the Brides' March by wearing sneakers and a wedding gown with a picture of Ricart pinned to its front, and walking 1,600 miles from Miami to the Queens church where Gladys Ricart planned to wed. Subsequently, the collective movement of the Brides' March was created not only to pay tribute to Ricart's memory, but also to raise awareness about the impact of domestic violence and the need for resources devoted to the challenges facing many Latinas in particular. (3) This article asserts that the Gladys Ricart case presents a cross-section of the dominant ideologies about domestic violence in the Latina/o community, and that the resultant Brides' March presents a vein of Latina activism that is, on the one hand, innovative and experience-based, and on the other, limited by patriarchal stereotypes.

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