Ursula Biemann.Performing the Border. RM 14(1):29-48 "Explores the gendered space in the public sphere, the entertainment and sex industry, and maquiladoras of the US-Mexico border region of Ciudad Juarez, as depicted in the video essay ""Performing the Border"" (Biemann, 1999). Post-Fordist forms of production and the sexual violence of the region are discussed as well. The social, cultural, and economic complexities of a transnational population are illuminated, including various testimonials from the video essay. Socioeconomic factors relating to prostitution, domestic work, and factory work are addressed. The discarded bodies from the many recent systematic murders are deemed symbols of the female situation in the region. 22 Photos, 1 Reference. L. Collins."