Complicit States: Why Violence Persists in Central American Women's Lives

Complicit States examines how state-driven forces contribute to the persistence of violence in the lives of women in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Cecilia Menjívar and Pamela Neumann's analysis moves beyond a focus on individual behaviors and weak law implementation to reveal how the region’s remilitarization, authoritarian practices, infiltration of conservative religious ideologies, and media manipulation and disinformation campaigns work together to undermine women’s r...