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Intimate partner femicide in South Africa in 1999 and 2009. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2013
BackgroundDeath is the most extreme consequence of intimate partner violence. Female homicide studies with data on the perpetrator-victim relationship can provide insights.
Naeemah Abrahams   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Philosophy of Disturbatory Feminist Art

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2017
In this paper I will show how contemporary feminist artists whose works concern femicides address three senses of the term “to disappear”. These works can be particularly disturbing, along the lines of  Danto’s notion of  disturbatory art, since these
Gemma Argüello Manresa
doaj   +1 more source

Notas epistemológicas en torno a la política de cifras de la violencia contra las mujeres

open access: yesEMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2020
En el presente trabajo nos proponemos abordar la política de cifras desplegadas por los movimientos de mujeres en Argentina de la última década en torno a las violencias contra las mujeres.
Cecilia Varela, Catalina Trebisacce
doaj   +1 more source

Better Prevention of Femicide: Evidence from Brazil

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
This article presents the results of a death review study of 34 cases of femicide in the Federal District, Brazil, between 2016 and 2017. The aim of the study is to analyse how primary, secondary and tertiary prevention policies could have enhanced the ...
Thiago Pierobom de Ávila   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intimate Femicide: The Role of Coercive Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Severe and escalating violence is cited as a precursor to intimate partner homicide and figures prominently in risk assessments and domestic violence death reviews. Drawing on interviews from the Australian Homicide Project with a sample of men convicted
Eriksson, L   +3 more
core   +1 more source

"But the law won't help us":challenges of mobilizing Law 348 to address violence against women in Bolivia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Drawing on findings of an original 12-month ethnographic study, this article presents the challenges that Bolivian women face in accessing a new law that has been designed to protect them, Law 348 to "Guarantee Women a Life Free from Violence." Data ...
Rogers, Ashley
core   +3 more sources

Femicides in native digital news outlets: greater and better coverage? A study of violence against women in the Spanish media

open access: yesObservatorio (OBS*), 2020
This paper presents the main findings of a qualitative study of news on femicides appearing in leading native digital news outlets in Spain. The study focused on 267 news items published in five digital news outlets between 1 January and 31 December 2017.
Irene Liberia Vayá   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reproductive Violence in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies
This paper examines the intersection of environmental injustice and reproductive violence, extending its scope to include nonhuman animals, through the literary analysis of Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats (1998) and Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood ...
Denisa Krásná
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of violence against women on severe acute maternal morbidity in the intensive care unit, including neonatal outcomes: a case–control study protocol in a tertiary healthcare facility in Lima, Peru [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Introduction Preventing and reducing violence against women (VAW) and maternal mortality are Sustainable Development Goals. Worldwide, the maternal mortality ratio has fallen about 44% in the last 25 years, and for one maternal death there are many women
Ayala Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

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