Elaine Carey

Elaine Carey (Ph.D., History, UNM) is assistant professor of history at St. John’s University. Her first book, Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico (UNM Press, 2005), is a Diálogos title.

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Women Drug Traffickers

Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime

University of New Mexico Press

"The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Plaza of Sacrifices

Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

On October 2, 1968, up to 700 students were killed by government authorities while protesting in Mexico City - many of them women. This analysis of the role of women in the protest movement shows how the events of 1968 shaped modern Mexican society.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine

Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands

The University of Arizona Press
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