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Subverting Justice: Socio-Legal Determinants of Impunity for Violence against Women in Guatemala

Laws, 2016
High levels of violence against women and impunity in Guatemala have reached crisis proportions and have received increased international attention in recent years.
Cecilia Menjívar, Shannon Drysdale Walsh   +1 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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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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Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 40-63, September 2024.
Abstract Researchers in variationist sociolinguistics have long sought to develop social measures that are more sophisticated than demographic categories such as age, gender, and social class, while still being useful for quantitative analysis. This paper presents one such new measure: discursive worlds.
Heather Burnett, Julie Abbou, Gabriel Thiberge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social reproduction in crisis: Gendered labour regimes in agro‐export sectors in Ecuador and Chile

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2024.
Abstract The pandemic lays bare the centrality of social reproduction in upholding global commodity networks. Capitalism's reliance on gendered and racialized systems of social reproduction has deepened structural contradictions and socio‐economic divides across agro‐export sectors and agrarian communities.
Laura T. Raynolds, Annabel Ipsen
wiley   +1 more source

Violence against women. Current procedural needs, with special reference to Panamá

Journal of Modern Science, 2018
Objectives This article intends to approach the phenomenon of gender violence and a general view of the response that the Administration of Justice must offer battered women, from their perspective as victims in a judicial process.
Amparo Salom Lucas
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Gender-based Violence and ‘Feminicide’ in Queer Italian Movements: Questioning Gender, Sexuality, and the (Hetero)normative Order

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014
This article describes the development of the Italian feminist political lexicon on gender-based violence within the security frame in the last years. After the description of the historical main issues developed by feminism during the Seventies about ...
Caterina Peroni
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REVISITING "FEMINICIDE #INVISIBILITY KILLS"

, 2021
The present essay discusses the work “FEMINICÍDIO # InvisibilidadeMata” through a descriptive study that has as main objective to revisit and debate the theme of gender violence which has acquired increasing scientific relevance despite being a traditional empirical phenomenon related to gender.
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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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