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Teen Unions and Intimate Partner Violence in South America

Population and Development Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 613-655, June 2025.
Abstract Precocious exits from adolescence via early union formation are often argued to represent a strong risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization. However, causal evidence for this claim is scant. This study examines the impact of teen union formation (before age 18) on experiences of IPV in Brazil and Colombia, where early ...
ORSOLA TORRISI
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Strategies for the prevention and eradication of femicide: Legal, institutional and societal dimensions, challenges and perspectives [PDF]

Pravni Zapisi
Femicide is commonly conceptualized and defined as the gender-based or gender-motivated killing of women. It is a global issue, prompting national states to implement legislative, policy and practical measures and actions to address it.
Jovanović Slađana, Ćopić Sanja
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Public perceptions of feminicide and the feminist movement in Mexico

Politics &Policy, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 1437-1452, December 2024.
Abstract The misclassification of murders results in the invisibilization and impunity of gender‐based violence. According to Observatorio Cuidadano Nacional del Feminicidio figures in 2024, of the 3408 cases of murdered women in Mexico in 2023, only 827 were classified as feminicides.
Sara J. Chaparro Rucobo, Apryl A. Alexander   +1 more
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Ecofeminism and the Cultural Affinity to Genocidal Capitalism: Theorising Necropolitical Femicide in Contemporary Greece

Social Sciences
Resilient necrocapitalism and the zombie genre of representations of current dystopias are persistent in their political purpose in producing changes in the social order to benefit plutocracies around the world. It is through a thanatopolitical lens that
Anastasia Christou
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Femicide: A Need for Orientation

Sociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11, November 2024.
ABSTRACT Femicide can be understood as a political term rather than a legal or medico‐legal one—its contemporary use dates back to the late 1970s, when academics began to explore and define terminologies that exposed the gendered nature of violence, and that when a woman was murdered her gender was not incidental to that fact.
Nechama R. Brodie
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Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 511-524, September/October 2024.
Abstract Stalking can be defined as a pattern of fixated, repeated, and unwanted behaviours. Stalking is not an isolated incident and was associated to sexual violence. While the relationship between sexual violence and stalking is scarcely explored, no studies have tested the relationship between stalking and sexual homicide, which both involves ...
Ewa Stefanska, Nicholas Longpré
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Vulnerability and Development: Rereading Populorum Progressio in Light of Feminicide

Journal of Moral Theology, 2017
One modern issue Populorum Progressio does not address is the problem of feminicide, or the misogynistic killing of women by men, perhaps because the issue had not yet received the attention and concern which it generates today. Even though feminicide is
Marianne Tierney FitzGerald
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Unsilencing silence on business school sexism: A behind‐the‐scenes narration on regaining voice

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 31, Issue 5, Page 2138-2157, September 2024.
Abstract Unsilencing sexism‐related silence is not a new need, particularly in academic institutions heavily imbued with patriarchy, where sexist events are often ignored or denigrated. In this paper, we draw on a sexist cyberbullying attack unleashed against part of our academic work to extend a critique to the silence culture surrounding business ...
Mar Pérezts, Emmanouela Mandalaki
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Media and Ambivalence| ¡No Fue Suicidio, Fue Feminicidio!: Ambivalent Facts in the (Un)making of Feminicide in Mexico

International Journal of Communication
This article examines how feminicide in Mexico emerges as an ambivalent phenomenon, arguing that it materializes not despite but precisely through tensions in forensic, legal, activist, and media practices.
Fernanda Soria-Cruz
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Between Motherhood and Violence: Women's Labor Challenges in Mexico

Convergencia
In Mexico, cultural norms reinforcing male dominance limit women’s economic and physical autonomy. This study examines how the motherhood penalty and gender-based violence restrict income opportunities and
Julia Juárez García, Felipe Cruz Díaz
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