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A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where
U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just
across from El Paso, Texas, this imaginative, experimental work investigates
the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women
living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and
material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region
through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the
entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere. Candid
interviews with Mexican women factory and sex workers, as well as activists and
journalists, are combined with scripted voiceover analysis, screen text, scenes
and sounds recorded on site, and found footage to give new insights into the
gendered conditions inscribed by the high-tech industry at its low-wage
end.
A Women Make Movies film. 42 minutes.
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