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The purpose of this document is to guide to the best practice to record femicide. While various reference sources have been taken into account to develop this guide, adaptation and compilation is the sole responsibility of ILDA. As all these materials present a regional approach, this guide go beyond the legislation of a specific country or administrative unit, so references to any of them are not included.

Einleitung -- Forschungsstand -- Werkzeuge:Theorie | Methode – Aufstand der Zeichen | Widerstand der Dinge -- "Did she ask you twice?" – Schnittstelle: Sex | Gewalt | Diskurs -- "Your Body is a Battleground" – Critical Crafting als künstlerische Intervention gegen sexualisierte Gewalt.-Conclusio.

Preface / Carol Smart -- Provocation by "sexual infidelity" - diminishing returns? / Adrian Howe -- Feminist dilemmas with law reform : Victoria, Australia / Danielle Tyson and Bronwyn Naylor -- Criminalising femicide in latin american countries : legal power working for women? / Patsili Toledo -- "Being wrought, perplexed in the extreme" : Othello and his syndrome / Adrian Howe -- Fighting femicide in Turkey : feminist legal challenges / Daniela Alaattinoglu and Cemre Baytok -- The Canadian femicide observatory for justice and accountability / Myrna Dawson -- Judicial discourse versus domestic violence death review : an Australian case study / Anna Butler and Emma Buxton-Namisnyk -- Italian legal feminism : engaging with the power of law / Ilaria Boiano -- Legal education : challenging the Finnish criminal law syllabus / Daniela Alaattinoglu and Johanna Niemi -- Finland on trial / Marjo Rantala -- Epilogue

This article conceptually investigates a type of gender murder, "romantic femicide." I understand this as the extreme form of violence that occurs as a result of men's incapacity to cope with their (female) partners' autonomy and power. The incapacity is not merely an individual pathology but is rather rooted in the dynamic of recognition characterizing love under structural conditions of gender dichotomy. After having sketched out the current discussion about femicide and its shortcomings, I argue for the hypothesis in three steps. First, I draw on a feminist theory of recognition in order to outline a nonviolent form of love. Lovers of this sort would depend on their partners and, at the same time, try to affirm their independence of them. Second, I show how such an interdependence bond would entail a dynamic of mutual empowerment. Third, I argue that love becomes a relation of domination as result of gender dichotomy. The dichotomization of two gender identities, "man" and "woman," splits the interdependence bond in a way that allows only man's unilateral exercise of power and makes mutual empowerment impossible. Violence might be required for maintaining the dynamic of dominance; finally, romantic femicide may result from the unsustainability of such a structure.

AbstractToday women in Guatemala are killed at nearly the same rate as they were in the early 1980s when the civil war became genocidal. Yet the current femicide epidemic is less an aberration than a reflection of the way violence against women has become normalized in Guatemala. Used to re-inscribe patriarchy and sustain both dictatorships and democracies, gender-based violence morphed into femicide when peacetime governments became too weak to control extralegal and paramilitary powers. The naturalization of gender-based violence over the course of the twentieth century maintained and promoted the systemic impunity that undergirds femicide today. By accounting for the gendered and historical dimensions of the cultural practices of violence and impunity, we offer a re-conceptualization of the social relations that perpetuate femicide as an expression of post-war violence.

Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a health problem of epidemic proportions throughout the world, and also in Spain. This violence has consequences on health and may even result in ...