Femicide is a relatively new area of study that was first introduced in 1976. Since then, there has been a push by many scholars to develop the field further, despite some arguments made that femicide is not as important of an issue given the relatively low rates of female homicides compared to male homicides. This article reviews three levels of analysis — micro, meso, and macro — and discusses culture and class as two contributing factors to femicide, illustrating that femicide is a complex global phenomenon that requires a multilateral and intersectional approach to be better understood. It concludes that by understanding and deconstructing certain social and institutional structures, we will be better equipped to understand femicide as a phenomenon and create more effective systems and legislation for a safer global society.
This article presents a brief analysis of the classification of feminicide figure in several Latin American countries –particularly in Argentina– examining the origin and the theoretical and political development of these concepts, as well as major connecting existing features and the differences in the new figures criminal of the continent. The complexity and diversity of criminal types, and their relationship to existing figures are challenges to law enforcement these. The introduction of such elements: such as gender, misogyny, hatred, generates resistances and judicial difficulties interpretation, leading to elaborations jurisprudential understanding which does not contributing in the comprehension on the issue of violence against women. Thus, the application of new these figures mostly in the femicides intimate the couple, whose description is simpler, but also stereotypes persist them, damning included in sentences that implicitly blame women themselves that violence have suffered. ; Este artículo presenta un breve análisis sobre la tipificación de la figura del femicidio/feminicidio en diversos países de Latinoamérica –y en particular, en Argentina– examinando el origen y desarrollo teóricopolítico de estos conceptos, así como las principales características y diferencias existentes entre las nuevas figuras penales del continente. La complejidad y diversidad de tipos penales, y su relación con figuras preexistentes constituyen desafíos para la aplicación de estas leyes. La introducción de elementos tales como género, misoginia, odio, etc., genera resistencias y dificultades en la interpretación judicial, dando lugar a elaboraciones jurisprudenciales no contribuyen a la comprensión de la violencia contra las mujeres. Así, la aplicación de estas nuevas figuras se da mayormente en femicidios íntimos o de pareja, cuya descripción es más sencilla, pero también persisten los estereotipos, incluso en sentencias condenatorias que implícitamente responsabilizan a las propias mujeres de la violencia que han ...
Women's voices are often silenced as compared to men, especially when it comes to speaking out against the injustice women have faced. In Mexico, women had been enduring femicide for decades, oftentimes being silenced and overshadowed by the government's narrative. In this new wave of activism called digital activism, people are now using social media to inform their audience about specific issues. Florence Pugh is one of these people. Pugh uses digital activism to spread awareness for Femicide in Mexico and encourage her audience to also speak up on the issue in a time where women's voices are silenced.
The term femicide is useful in naming a wide range of sexist killings of women by men, just as "genocide" and "sexual harassment" named these respective other crimes and civil violations. Definitions and example of killings that are, and are not, femicides clarify the scope of the term. A number and variety of misogynistic killings of women can be documented. There is evidence that learning of the term of femicide has helped women to see and to combat femicides in their spheres. The term femicide has been embraced by the United Nations and by eight Latin American countries to date.
Includes Notes on contributors and Index ; The definition of the term 'femicide' has been historically constructed and debated. Femicide is the culmination of different forms of violence against women and failure by the state to protect women from violence (WAVE, 2017b). As opposed to the 'homicide of women', or 'uxoricide', the term femicide is politically charged to bring awareness to the killing of women due to their gender. Often, but not always, these murders occur within societies structured on and functioning within deeply rooted patriarchal beliefs. ; peer-reviewed
The concept of femicide in Latin America was developed by the ethnologist and anthropologist Marcela Lagarde, specifically for the case of women murdered in Ciudad Juarez (Mexico). The term has spread to other countries and in Colombia it was built into the reform to the Penal Code (Act 1257 of 2008) in this law is to protect women in such circumstances, this paper intends to make a sketch and a made known this as fact.
The death of a woman as a consequence of the actions or omissions of the State, institutions or people, due to the disregard of her condition as a woman and the conceptions, traditions and organizational forms of an unequal society, among which can be mentioned attributable maternal deaths deliveries in unacceptable hygienic conditions, lack of medical assistance or obstetric violence can be considered indirect femicide. For this reason, the aforementioned article aims to make visible, problematize and denounce, from a feminist and intersectional perspective, femicides as a consequence of violent gynecological and obstetric practices carried out on women's bodies for cultural, religious, economic, political or medical reasons. ; which are deepened in the case of racialized women, economically precarious women, and therefore, with less influence or possibility of making visible and successfully denouncing the forms of violence and violation perpetrated against them. ; La muerte de una mujer como consecuencia de las acciones u omisiones del Estado, instituciones o personas, debido al menosprecio de su condición de mujer y a las concepciones, tradiciones y formas organizativas de una sociedad desigual, entre las que se pueden mencionar las muertes maternas atribuibles a partos en condiciones higiénicas inaceptables, la falta de asistencia médica o la violencia obstetricia es posible considerarla como femicidio indirecto. A razón de ello, el referido artículo apunta a visibilizar, problematizar y denunciar desde una perspectiva feminista e interseccional los femicidios como consecuencia de las prácticas ginecológicas y obstetricias violentas realizadas sobre los cuerpos de las mujeres por motivos culturales, religiosos, económicos, políticos o médicos; las cuales se profundizan en el caso de las mujeres racializadas, las mujeres económicamente precarizadas, y por tanto, con menor influencia o posibilidad de visibilizar y denunciar con éxito las formas de violencia y vulneración contra ellas perpetradas. ; A morte de uma mulher em consequência de ações ou omissões do Estado, de instituições ou de pessoas, por desconsideração da sua condição de mulher e das concepções, tradições e formas de organização de uma sociedade desigual, entre as quais se podem citar atribuíveis mortes maternas, partos em condições de higiene inaceitáveis, falta de assistência médica ou violência obstétrica podem ser considerados feminicídio indireto. Por esse motivo, o referido artigo visa tornar visível, problematizar e denunciar, em uma perspectiva feminista e intersetorial, o feminicídio em decorrência de violentas práticas ginecológicas e obstétricas praticadas no corpo das mulheres por motivos culturais, religiosos, econômicos, políticos ou médicos. ; que se aprofundam no caso das mulheres racializadas, mulheres economicamente precárias e, portanto, com menor influência ou possibilidade de se tornarem visíveis e denunciarem com sucesso as formas de violência e violação perpetradas contra elas.