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More than 400 women have been murdered in and around Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, over the past decade. As the murders continue unabated and unsolved, and with the likely complicity of state authorities, they have triggered a dynamic cultural response from writers, filmmakers, singers, and others who deplore the murders while suggesting the underlying causes of the femicides. Our articleexamines three of these responses: the photojournalism of Julián Cardona, a novel by Carlos Fuentes, and a song by Los Tigres del Norte. We conclude that even as these artists express a profoundsympathy for the victims' plight, their representations, which are based on patriarchal binaries of male dominance and female submissiveness, act to revictimize the women. Since for these culturalproducers, it was women's active incorporation into the wage labor force as assembly plant workers that generated Juárez's "disorder," then it follows that "order" will only be restored when female passivity is reasserted. We also explore how the workof feminist critics, specifically Alicia Gaspar de Alba, challenges this approach by highlighting female/subaltern resistance, addressing the victims' basic rights, and raising vital questions aboutgender identity on a highly militarized border.